Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.