The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

“Chaque fois qu'on produit un effet, on se donne un ennemi. Il faut rester médio…”

“It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world”

“The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and …”

“The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers…”