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.

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

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

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

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.