As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Only death goes deeper than sex.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.

Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.