Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.

Necessity knows no rules.

There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.