The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.