I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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.

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.