“Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one's sides.”

“My literature must remain that which it is. Especially that something which does not fit into politics and does not want to serve it. I cultivate just one politics: my own. I am a separate state.”

“Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.”

“You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!”

“A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed. ”

“Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.”

“Don't be fooled by your own wisdom”