What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

The end of exile is the end of being.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

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.

He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him.

Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.