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

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

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