If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.