The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.