I am the vampire at my own veins.

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

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

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness