What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Man is unacceptable.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.