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

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .