Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.