It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette.

I anticipated witnessing in my lifetime the disappearance of our species. But the Gods have been against me.

When you love someone, you hope — the more closely to be attached — that a catastrophe will strike your beloved.

When you get over an infatuation, to fall for someone ever again seems so inconceivable that you imagine no one, not even a bug, that is not mired in disappointment.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly the contrary of a mission.

The surest means of not losing your mind on the spot: remembering that everything is unreal, and will remain so...

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

What a judgment upon the living, if it is true, as has been maintained, that what dies has never existed!

What is not heartrending is superfluous, at least in music.

To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.