Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.

Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.