The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.