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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of... →
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed... →
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.