"All problems are unsolvable. The essence of the existence of a problem is that there is no solution. Looking for a fact means there is no fact. To think is not to know how to be."

"To act is to rest."

"I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success."

"The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels."

"I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have."

"There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were."

"I never meant to be but a dreamer."

"The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man."

"They bring me faith like a closed package in someone else's plate. They want me to accept it so that I don't open it."

"If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts."

"My life is as if you've hit me with it."

"My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt."

"Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it."

"My joy is as painful as my pain."

"Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly."

"I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom."

"You breathe better when you're rich."

"What, I believe, produces in me the deep feeling, in which I live, of incongruity with others, is that most think with sensitivity, while I feel with thought."

"A sort of anteneurosis of what I will be when I will not longer be freezes my body and soul. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes me shudder from the inside."

"The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax."

"Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities."

"I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?"

"Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul."

"Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one."

"It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living."

"I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner."

"What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it."

"The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races."

"The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn."

"Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy."

"Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me."

"In order to understand, I destroyed myself."

"For I am the size of what I see not my height's size."

"To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers."

"Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day [...] an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being."

"There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe."

"As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes."

"It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was."

"Thing thrown to a corner, rag fallen on the road, my ignoble being feigns itself in front of life."

"Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells."

"Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom."

"Everything was asleep as if the universe was a mistake."

"I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by."

"The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!"

"I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling."

"I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility."

"I have now so many fundamental thoughts, so many really metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write more, not to think more, but allow the fever of saying to make me sleepy, and fondle, with closed eyes, as if to a cat, all that I could have said."