No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.