Art is the accomplice of love.

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.