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.

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.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.