The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.

Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.