“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.”

“Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive. ”

“But the true voyagers are only those who leaveJust to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons,They never turn aside from their fatalityAnd without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!”

“Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.”

“I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.”

“It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.”

“The Beautiful is always strange.”