I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

your judgement judges you and defines you

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

Existence is an imperfection.