We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.