Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

Love between a man and woman is war.

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

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.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.