To define is to limit.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I can resist anything except temptation.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

I am not young enough to know everything.