In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

The woman who loves always smells good.

Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

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

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

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.

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.