One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.