« When we feel uncertainty, we prefer to replace it with certainties, even exaggerated or erroneous. Wisdom is not about having certainties, but about tolerating our uncertainties. We look at them, we think about them, but we accept the existence and the evidence. »

« In psychopharmacology, there is a cruel laboratory experiment: to test the possible antidepressant efficacy of a new molecule, mice are placed in a jar filled with water, deep and with smooth walls, where they cannot cling, and must therefore swim tirelessly so as not to drown. It's called the "forced swimming test." A molecule is considered interesting if it allows the treated mouse to swim longer than non-medicated mice: after a while, the latter, exhausted and demoralized, stop swimming. Antidepressants, on the other hand, significantly prolong swimming time, i.e. time to combat despair and discouragement. We will see later that when we feel exhausted from fighting, letting ourselves sink into depression is like a refuge... »

« In his Portrait of Don Juan, Marcel Jouhandeau noted: "There may not be suicide per se: you kill yourself only because you are so far away from yourself that you do not recognize yourself: you aim for a ghost, a puppet, a caricature whose promiscuity embarrasses or dishonors you." To which Montherlant added, "We commit suicide out of respect for life, when your life has ceased to be worthy of you." »