Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.
He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.
The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.
The nails from a suicide’s coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.
I’ve written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won’t come.
This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.
I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.
What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.
Love is the law, love under will.
A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.
I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered – now I have only one doubt left – which of the twain was God?
The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.
Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease – that of thinking.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.
There is no part of me that is not of the Gods.