What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

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

Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.

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

She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.