Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.
Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
I had, as I told you, a great passion while still almost a child. When it was over, I divided myself in two, placing on one side the soul I kept for Art, and on the other, my body, which would have to fend for itself.