To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

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?

You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.

It is better to risk starving to death than giving up on your dream. If you have given up on your dream, what's left?

I think fitness is important. I think a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people.

PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.

Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.

Nobody understands your life, but you.

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.