May God deny you peace but give you glory!

The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.