By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air.

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.