Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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.
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.
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.