The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

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?

Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?""Power.""Power isn't real. It's just a word.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.

A jerk on a motorcycle is equal to a leaf, because I find it beautiful when these things fall.

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?

Finders were keepers unless title was proven.

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments.