One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

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

When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

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