That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.

The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

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

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.