One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.