Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.