Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul.

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.

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!

Military men are the scourges of the world.

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food