Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

I have dreamed much and have done very little.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.