"I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible."

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

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."

"I am not a genius, I am a great genius."