Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.