To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!
To have and to want more that is life.
That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.
Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.