Tears do not burn except in solitude.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.