These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

Let's develop theories, patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them – acting and justifying our actions with new theories that condemn them. Let's cut a path in life and then go immediately against that path. Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't even wish to be, and don't even wish to taken for being.

I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.