What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression.

I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.

One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.

The key of joy is disobedience.

Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle