Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable