1. “Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.”
2. “The only free mind is one hat, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.”
3. “Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one’s reach.”
4. “We derive our vitality from our store of madness.”
5. “We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to .”
6. “A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self respect.”
7. “Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.”
8. “We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.”
9. “Our first intuitions are the true ones.”
10. “Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.”
11. “We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.”
12. “Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”
13. “time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.”
14. “Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.”
15. “The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.”
16. “There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.”
17. “Man starts over again everyday in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”
18. “He who hates himself is not humble.”
19. “Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.”
20. “Existing is plagiarism.”
21. “To act is to anchor in the imminent future.”
22. “The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.”
23. “Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.”
24. “No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”
25. “Our works, whatever they may be derive from our incapacity kill or to kill ourselves.”
26. “Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.”
27. “Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.”
28. “Chaos is rejecting all you have leaned, chaos is being yourself.”
29. “Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
30. “We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.”
