Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.

I have come too late into a world too old.

Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.

Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!