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(…) Au fond, ce qui domine en moi, c’est le dégoût, C’est l’ennui, c’est la lassitude. Le curieux vivait pour vivre jusqu’au bout : Je ne vis que par habitude.

“Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.”

“Isn’t there an advantage in creating philosophy as I do? A flash in the night—a language belonging to a brief moment . . .”

“What I want is that you love me even unto death. For my part, it is in death I love you at this very instant. But I don’t want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”

That was the period when Simone developed a mania for breaking eggs with her behind.

“To ask oneself before another: by what means does he calm within himself the desire to be everything? Sacrifice, conformity, trickery, poetry, morality, snobbery, heroism, religion, revolt, vanity, money? or by several means together? or all together? A wink of an eye in which glimmers a deceitfulness, a melancholy smile, a grimace of fatigue together betray the disguised suffering which the astonishment at not being everything, at even having concise limits, gives us.”

“The happiness we find in becoming is possible only by annihilating the reality of “existences” and lovely appearance, and through the pessimistic destruction of illusions: so, by annihilating even the loveliest appearances, Dionysian happiness attains its height.”