Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Art is the accomplice of love.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

Words can mean nothing, or be daggers in someone's heart. Choose them wisely.

JUST BECAUSE ANYONE CAN, DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE SHOULD (Mrs. Peters to Conner Bailey)

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

My religion is to live and die without regret.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh