Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.