“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

True friends stab you in the front.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.