My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers..

I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended betwe….

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to..

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself..

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

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

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity..

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

He who hates himself is not humble..

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

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

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..

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

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

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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