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

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

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