In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

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.

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.