Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.