The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.