The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out ... in me anything is possible, for I am he who at the supreme moment, in front of absolute nothingness, will laugh.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.