By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

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

Art is nothing without form.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.