One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

I am for religion, against religions.

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.