“A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.”

“Secret to remain young is to have an inordinate passion for pleasure.”

“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”

“The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”

“She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.”

“I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.”

“Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.”