Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.