Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!' Ah! by Jove! one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

COLD. Healthier than heat.