A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.