I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.