“The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.”

“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”

“Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.”

“Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.”

“You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.”

“Il n'est qu'un bien, c'est le tendre plaisir.Quelle immortalité vaut une nuit heureuse ?Pour tes baisers je vendrais l'avenir.”

“La vie me sied mal; le mort m'ira peut-être mieux.”