“The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.”

“Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.”

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

“With rebellion, awareness is born.”

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

“Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.”

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