The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Come, letโs be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase.
I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.