The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
Word - that invisible dagger.
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
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 life.
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.