Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.