To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

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

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

The act of love is a confession.