Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.