Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.