Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

Long only for what you have.