“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

“Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with a flattering wordThe coward does it with a kissThe brave man with a sword”

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”

“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are...”

“I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”

“Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.”

“But just as my philosophy had ceased to interest me as soon as it was formulated into a set of principles so, when I saw myself being imitated, I realised at once what an incubus my aesthetic perso...”

“Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all ones prejudices.”

“There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike...”