“All truths are bloody truths to me.”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.”

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!”

“In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.”

“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”

“The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.”

“No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.”