The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.