No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.
At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.