"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."
"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."