Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.

It isn't possible to love and to part.