there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

Woman was God's second mistake.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.