Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!