The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking.... Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind.