There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.