Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
civilization is a transient sickness.
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
The tides are in our veins.