And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.

A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!