No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.

My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.