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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.
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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses.
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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.