To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps.

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.