Edmond de Goncourt

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Action is the antidote to despair.