Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

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.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.