To hope is to contradict the future.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

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

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.