You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.