There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings

Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded...

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It...