"I am a revolutionary, and I will never cease to be one."

"Nothing is as encouraging as a first crime that goes unpunished."

"How many times, good God, have I not wished it were possible to attack the sun, to deprive the universe of it, or to use it to set the world ablaze – those would be crimes indeed, and not the little e…"

"The only way to be happy is to be evil."

"It is not by the force of the lash that one brings down a human being to the level of the beast."