You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.