Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

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.