Don't talk about horrid subjects. If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened.
He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.
But this murder- was it to dog him all his life? Was he always to be burdened by his past? Was he really?
To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.
He was dreadfully short-sighted, and there was no pleasure in taking a husband who never sees anything.
But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid. Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?
He was prisoned in thought. Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.
I would give my soul for that!
Through vanity he had spared her.
I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself.
I have no terror of death. It is the coming of death that terrifies me. Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around me.
I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.
In every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
Oh! Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often.
A mask tells us more than a face.
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.
Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.