Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.