My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.