Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.