Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.