To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.

When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.

La literatura es la manera más agradable de ignorar la vida.

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.