I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people’s lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women’s faces while they are saying they regret the harm they have done. It is the smile of nature quietly and proudly asserting its natural right to kill.

Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.

Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.