The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.

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?

The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep.

Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.

It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

When you make pain look this good it never wears out.

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.