“(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Easter blessingsAll lifes sacrifices like autumn leavesawaken our sensesand power to love and be wholeOur Mother Earth, Our Father Skyembraces our happiness and laughterPraise be to freedom and lif...”

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the h”

“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or ...”

“Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.”

“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”