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

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

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

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.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

I do not want to just read books I want to crawl inside them and live there.

Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. -

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'.

We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.

Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is.