Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

For the moment being, given that we live in society, the only duty of superior men is to reduce to a minimum their participation in the tribe's life. Not to re…

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. [...] Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

If you spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.