If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.