Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Progress, this great heresy of decay.
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
We are all born marked for evil.
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
Nothing can be done except little by little.