I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.

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

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.