Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night.

Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself

Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.