Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.