Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

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

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.