What is really beautiful must always be true.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.