“Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.”

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”

“Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.”

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

“Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.”

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

“Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.”