Existence is an imperfection.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

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.

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.