To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.