There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.