A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

Wine transforms moles into eagles.

Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.

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

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.