How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

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

If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.

Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.

Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Life swarms with innocent monsters.