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

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.