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.

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.