When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.