"An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics."

"When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything."

"If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other."

"Happiness is always a coincidence."

"To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment."

"There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad."

"Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned."

"To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom."

"A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition."

"Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?"

"You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made."

"A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men."

"We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons."

"In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal."

"A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces."

"The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst."

"The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward."

"It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime."

"The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's."

"Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race."

"Theology is the logic of the Devil."

"The first condition for making music is not to make a noise."

"The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair."

"To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success."

"True solidarity is only possible among the solitary."

"True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed."

"Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin."

"There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all."

"Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts."

"To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty."

"Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love."