“The aim of life is self-development. To realize ones nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for.”

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.