That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

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