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.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

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