"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."
"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
"It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."