Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.
I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.