In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.

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.

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.