I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Authority is quite degrading.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.