Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.