Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
History is only gossip.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.