There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.