Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.

You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

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