You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means tat the disease is incurable.
I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.