“The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.”

“Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?”

“Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. ”

“A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble”

“The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.”

“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”

“Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.”