if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.