We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.