The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.

The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.