As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

Money is coined liberty.

The world will be saved by beauty.

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.