No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
Word – that invisible dagger.
Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.
What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.
The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.
No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.
The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.
Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.
This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique – and insignificant.
Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing – between two fictions.
I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one’s victories as defeats.
We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...
My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.
It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.