The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.