When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

Alas for this mad melancholy beast man! What phantasies invade it, what paroxysms of perversity, hysterical senselessness, and mental bestiality break out immediately, at the very slightest check on its being the beast of action.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.

Success has always been a great liar.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.