The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

We change ideas like neckties.

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.