There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

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

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.