Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.