There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

What doesn't kill you make you stronger.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.