Do you smoke?Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terri...
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous poor...they have made private terms with the enemy,...
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.
Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.
You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
What are the unreal things, but the passions that once burned one like fire? What are the incredible things, but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the improbable things? The things...
Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that...