One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.