Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

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

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.