Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.