life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.

It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.