"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh"
"A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate"
"We are afraid of the enormity of the possible"
"The limit of every pain is an even greater pain"
"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors"
"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"
"One hardly saves a world without ruling it"
"If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot"
"We inhabit a language rather than a country"
"Under each formula lies a corpse"
"There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be"
"The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself"
"The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth"
"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"
"So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes"
"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"
