In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.

You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.

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.

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.