We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.

If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.