Sex without pain is like food without taste

Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet... Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.