Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky.

So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly an object created in the mode of fantasy. His image was already present somewhere in my head and I was seeking to discover it in actuality, looking at every face I met in case it was the right face - that is, the face which corresponded to my notion of the unseen face of the one I should love, a face created parthenogeneticallyby the rage to love which consumed me.

Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.