When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

There's no tyrant like a brain.