Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.