For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me

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.

But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.