Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.

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