Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

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

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.