Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.
My only books were women's looks.
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.
With renunciation life begins.
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.