The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

An existence transfigured by failure.

Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person