If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.