Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

I never change, except in my affections.