“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoi...”

“Marry, and you will regret it; dont marry, you will also regret it; marry or dont marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the worlds foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will r...”

“A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.”

“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”

“Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happyConscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.”

“Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love...”

“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”