You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.