“I did not want to be taken for a fool the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.”

“For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.”

“Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...”

“Dandies, who as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.”

“Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!”

“I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”