Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.