Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.