Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.