An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

The farther men get from God, the farther they advance into the knowledge of religions.

What are you waiting for in order to give up?

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

When you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble to prove it.

It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.

Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil.

I pride myself on my capacity to perceive the transitory character of everything. An odd gift which has spoiled all my joys; better: all my sensations.

The only thing the young should be taught is that there is virtually nothing to be hoped for from life. One dreams of a Catalogue of Disappointments which would include all the disillusionments reserved for each and every one of us, to be posted in the schools.