... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!