Where your life leads you, you must go

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.