"You wish to know what you are doing, and how you are living, and what your relations are to society? Why, my friend, you are living in Paris, and Paris is the world."

"The strongest are those who are most alone."

"I am a man of passions, and I do not regret them."

"There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that ever happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question."

"Man is but an ass, if he is not an eagle."