History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.