Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

Life is a useless passion.

Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.