"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

"Life is a succession of deaths."

"The sun, having no alternative, shines on the nothing new."

"The day will come when I shall be able to tell myself that I have done all that I can."

"The greatest thing is to be forgotten. I mean, to be truly forgotten. To have no trace, no memory, nothing."