Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of us - in ecstasy!

Faith assuages, guides, restores.

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that, love, beauty, everything else goes out the window. All they have left is cold disdain; that's what marriages live on nowadays. Sometimes I see women who ought to be happy, with whom I could have found companionship, already swallowed up by brutes with as much feeling as an old log.