Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?

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

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.