The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

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.

If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.