Two Fundamental Literary Qualities: Supernaturalism And Irony.

I Have Cultivated My Hysteria With Pleasure And Terror.

Even If It Were Proven That God Didn't Exist, Religion Would Still Be Saintly And Divine.

One Must Work, If Not From Inclination, At Least Out Of Despair — Since It Proves, On Close Examination, That Work Is Less Boring Than Amusing Oneself.

Unable To Suppress Love, The Church Wanted At Least To Disinfect It, And It Created Marriage.

Our Squalid Society Rushed, Narcissus To A Man, To Gaze On Its Trivial Image On A Scrap Of Metal.