A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

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.

Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.