Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Let's develop theories, patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them – acting and justifying our actions with new theories that condemn them. Let's cut a path in life and then go immediately against that path. Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't even wish to be, and don't even wish to taken for being.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.

Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!