I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

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 too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.