The beautiful is always bizarre.

"Always be a poet, even in prose."

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."

"Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will."

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

"Remembering is only a new form of suffering."

"The beautiful is always bizarre."

"If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist."

"What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters."