“To have committed every crime but that of being a father.”

“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?”

“I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity. Yet in a less assured mood, birth seems a calamity I would be miserable not having known.”

“I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.”

“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.”

“We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!”

“His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse.”