The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.