Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.
Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.