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.

Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

Cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household.