The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

Every intentional act is a magical act.