With rebellion, awareness is born

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.