Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.