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

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

“At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the good taste of an artist, the gourmet’s fondness for good food, and the love of flowers, which concealed in their delicate shadows a hint of the love of women”

“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”

“I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.”

“He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.”

“The further from one another, the nearer one can be.”