"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui"
"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world"
"Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself"
"God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays"
"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion"
"A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed"
"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech"
"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea"
"We derive our vitality from our store of madness"
"We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void"
"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster"
"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us"
"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness"
"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late"
"Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious"
"Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter"
"We die in proportion to the words we fling around us"
"The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one"
"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows"
"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there"
"A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself"
"If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot"
"Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone"
"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in"
