It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

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.

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

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.

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.