It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.

Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.