I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

“Todos estamos en el fango, pero algunos miramos las estrellas”

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or …”

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

“In the square below,’ said the Happy Prince, ‘there stands a little match-girl.…”