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

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.