Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.