I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.