"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."
"Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force."
"One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry."
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."