Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

There is always some madness in love.

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.