Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.