I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

Genius is born-not paid

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly