I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

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

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.