If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

He who hates himself is not humble.