There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.