Children are certainly too good to be true.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

But of works of art little can be said.

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.