Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!

(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.

Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...

Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.

There are two kinds of people:those who learned to love and those who didn't.

You shall not be afraid to hear bad news. God will strength you.

There Are No Believers in This World:There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers.

We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.

Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political meanings, continues to sing his own peculiar and alluring song.

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.