Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

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.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.