To dream of an enterprise of demolition that would spare none of the traces of the original Big Bang. - Emil Cioran

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

Life inspires more dread than death — it is life which is the great unknown.

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion, when the intuition of disaster is so painful that it almost provokes a greater madness [...] One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.