To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

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

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.