There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.