If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.