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

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

“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.”

“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”