Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

The consciousness of life is higher than life.

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.