The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.