Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

True artists scorn nothing.

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.