One does not kill by anger but by laughter.
A life without music is an error.
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.