You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.
Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.