“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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

I can resist everything except temptation.

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

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

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.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.