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

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

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.

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

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.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.