Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.