We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.