She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.

Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.