We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.