“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”

“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”

“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. ”

“It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.”

“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.”

“Sacrificing earth to paradise is like leaving your fortune to a corpse. I'm not that stupid. Duped by the Infinite! I am nothing; I call myself Count Nothing, the senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Will I after my death? No. What am I? A little dust surrounding an organism. What do I have to do on this earth? I have the choice of pain or pleasure. Where will pain lead me? To nothing. But I will have suffered. Where will pleasure lead me? To nothing. But I will have enjoyed. My choice is made. I must eat or be eaten, and I choose to eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. That's my philosophy.”

“There is M. Geborand purchasing paradise for a sou.”