Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

One should always be a little improbable.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.