There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

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

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.