One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.