When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.