Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us