We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

There is no limit to suffering.

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

We are all geniuses when we dream.