There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

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.

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 have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.