'Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be involuntary, pure immediacy of feeling. In its longing for this, which means a dispensation from work, the bourgeois idea of love transcends bourgeois society. But in erecting truth directly amid the general untruth, it perverts the former into the latter.'

'Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.'

'Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.'

'Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conce…

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

O amor espiritualiza o homem - e materializa a mulher.