The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.