When I think of women, it is their hair which first comes to my mind. The very idea of womanhood is a storm of hair. . . .

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime -- it even presupposes it.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip