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.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?