Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
