A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.