All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

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

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.