The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

Depression is rage spread thin.