The woman who loves always smells good..

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn..

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free..

Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has be….

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity..

God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist..

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined..

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.

And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. I….

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad..

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility..

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary..

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indif….

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.

To know what everyone knows is to know nothing..

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

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity..

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it..

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

Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to con….