The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.
My pessimism has never been flabby.
Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!
It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.
It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.