My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. |
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often . |
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling. |
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. |
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. |
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. |
Not to be obliged, like so many others, to choose between the insipid and the atrocious. |
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty. |
Nothing proves that we are more than nothing. |
Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil. It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition. |
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. |
One hardly saves a world without ruling it. |
Our contortions, visible or secret, we communicate to the planet; already it trembles even as we do, it suffers the contagion of our crises and, as this grand mal spreads, it vomits us forth, cursing us the while. |
Our first intuitions are the true ones. |
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. |