The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.