Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

The most powerful soporific is sleep itself.