It was only in the theatre that I lived

A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.