Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

You are forgiven everything provided you have a trade, a subtitle to your name, a seal on your nothingness.

Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

To Live signifies to believe and hope — to lie and to lie to oneself.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

At different degrees, everything is pathology, except for indifference.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police — and end by calling them in.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

So long as man is protected by madness he functions and flourishes, but when he frees himself from the fruitful tyranny of fixed ideas, he is lost, ruined.