Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with differ….

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationship….

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure..

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them..

Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consiste….

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image..

It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven….

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it..

Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, ….

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good..

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all..

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children..

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves..

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every b….

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting..

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned..

Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!.

if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married.

Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be r….

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in….

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad..