To hope is to contradict the future.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.

A book is a suicide postponed.

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.