We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.