Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.
Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.
Well, suppose we remain upon earth, after all? Suppose we bravely accept the death of our dreams at the same time as the death of our bodies? This beyond is decidedly uncertain, quite vague and mobile...
How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.
He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the ma...
To acquire the full consciousness of self is to know oneself so different from others that no longer feels allied with men except by purely animal contacts: nevertheless, among souls of this degree, t...
Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress...
The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.
It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference of two or three minutes in their reading of the time. One has a tendency to put bac...
As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward inhibition; they...
Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
