Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.