Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness