“The act of love is a confession.”

“I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.”

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”

“To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.”

“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”

“Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.”

“If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.”