But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love someone for your whole life - that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends ... But you can hate someone for your whole life - provided he's always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart.

All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.