As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
To hope is to contradict the future.
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.
When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.
I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.
Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.
This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Man is a robot with defects.
I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief
I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.
A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
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