Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Beauty will save the world

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.