The fumes of wine fermented in my head; it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to one of the adored.... One would willingly embrace all who smile, and one feels that he is brother of all who live.

The only truth is love beyond reason.

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.