We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

The memory of man is as old as misfortune