Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

History proves nothing because it contains everything.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

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.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.