Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.