To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

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