Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.
Inspiration comes of working every day.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.