When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms.

We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of atrophied social, political, educational, and religious institutions, instead of resolutely combating them.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.