To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.