History is merely gossip

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

Everything that is popular is wrong.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

Men become old, but they never become good.