The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.

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

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

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.