Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

Reality is a creation of our excesses.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Tears do not burn except in solitude.

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