Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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.
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.