There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
We are all born marked for evil.
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
Genius is childhood recalled at will.