You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.