The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

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.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.