"Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos œuvres."

"What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it."

"For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act. They are hampered by mistrust of t…"

"He is so corrupt that he would willingly pay for the pleasure of selling himself."

"The brazen arms were working more quickly. They paused no longer. Every time that a child was placed in them the prie…"

"Without ideality, there is no grandeur; without grandeur there is no beauty. Olympus is a mountain. The most effectiv…"

"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. (14 August 1853)"

"Don't talk to me about your hideous reality! What does it mean — reality? Some see things black, others blue — the mu…"

"Rien n'est humiliant comme de voir les sots réussir dans les entreprises où l'on échoue."

"There is no 'true'. There are merely ways of perceiving truth."