Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

Eternity - waste of time.