The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.