For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.