“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.