Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

We need the books that affect us like a disaster