The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

I can, therefore, I am.

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.