We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

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.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.