What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false

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

A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.