What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification..

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell..

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived..

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity..

He who hates himself is not humble..

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws..

As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political ….

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly..

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation..

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one..

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 ano….

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot..

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to d….

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself..

What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself..

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him..

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach..

The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief..

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth..

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive..