“Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.”

“Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.”

“Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.”

“We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.”

“Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.”

“Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.”

“Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.”

“It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.”

“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”

“Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. ”

“The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way – perhaps the final way - is to say: Go forward, without knowing why, as quickly as possible, towards an unknown goal! To act and think are opposites which identify one only in the Absolute. To accomplish all one's movements – of the head, the arms, the legs – without ever quite attaining the status of a puppet, but with a certainty that gives one a feeling of rightness: that is what is nowadays held up as the ideal. Be citizens of Universal activity! Forget to be conscious of ourselves! The blind horse gallops without hesitation, not knowing where it is going, not caring where it has been: so let up put out our eyes!”