I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it