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

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

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.

Reality is a creation of our excesses.