“أن تعرف يعني أن تتناقض. ثمة درجة من عدم التناقض لا يرقى إليها شيء سوى الكذب...”

“La soledad es el estado propio del genio y del elegido.”

“Fruit free of any bruises, not yet broken open, / With flesh so firm and smooth, it cried out to be eaten!”

“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”

“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”

“I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.”

“The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).”