My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.