Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. Votes: 10
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. Votes: 10
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. Votes: 4
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? Votes: 0
Word - that invisible dagger. Votes: 0
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. Votes: 0
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. Votes: 0
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. Votes: 0
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. Votes: 0
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. Votes: 0
We change ideas like neckties. Votes: 0
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity. Votes: 0
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. Votes: 0
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state. Votes: 0
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. Votes: 0
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. Votes: 0
I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece. Votes: 0
Democracy: a festival of mediocrity. Votes: 0
A book is a suicide postponed. Votes: 0
The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love. Votes: 0
I don't understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday. Votes: 0
I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person Votes: 0
What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts. Votes: 0
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed? Votes: 0
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach. Votes: 0
We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage. Votes: 0
I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them. Votes: 0
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive. Votes: 0
There is no limit to suffering. Votes: 0
A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous. Votes: 0
The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell. Votes: 0
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. Votes: 0
Consciousness is nature's nightmare. Votes: 0
Existing is plagiarism. Votes: 0
Man is a robot with defects. Votes: 0
I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies. Votes: 0
We are all geniuses when we dream. Votes: 0
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. Votes: 0
For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. Votes: 0
Pursued by our originsâ¦we all are. Votes: 0
To hope is to contradict the future. Votes: 0
If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing. Votes: 0
Basis of society: anonymous sweat. Votes: 0
Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other. Votes: 0
Tolerance cannot seduce the young. Votes: 0
As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think. Votes: 0
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity. Votes: 0
Society: an inferno of saviors! Votes: 0
Under each formula lies a corpse. Votes: 0
He who hates himself is not humble. Votes: 0