They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

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.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

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.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.