One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

Normal people have nothing to forget.

One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

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.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?