“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”

“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”

“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.”

“Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.”

“Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life? ”

“The absence of a flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ”

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ”