If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!

We are all born marked for evil.

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

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.