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

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.