I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.