Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?