To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

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

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

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