Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.