Love is wiser than Philosophy, though he is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty... His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.

My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself.

Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination.

It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

I remember having read somewhere, in some strange book, that when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.