He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.

But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.