Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.