Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

True love rules especially through memory.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?