Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.