There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.