Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

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

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

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.