To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music