Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

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

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.

Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.