Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

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.

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

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.

To hope is to contradict the future.