We inhabit a language rather than a country.

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

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.