Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.