A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

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.

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

We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!