“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”
“A multitude of small delights constitutes happiness.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
“One should always be drunk.”
“The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.”
“I have committed the worst sin one can commit. I have not been happy.”
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met.”
“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
“Time is the substance I am made of.”
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
“Excess of sorrow laughs; excess of joy weeps.”
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
“He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”