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title: "2 Alas Quotes By Stéphane Mallarmé"
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> [The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/the-flesh-is-sad-alas-and-i-have-read-all-the-books/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

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> [The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/the-flesh-alas-is-sad-and-i-have-read-all-the-books/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

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## Other authors on Alas

## More by Stéphane Mallarmé

> [The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/the-flesh-is-sad-alas-and-i-have-read-all-the-books/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

> [Dreams have as much influence as actions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/dreams-have-as-much-influence-as-actions/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

> [I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/i-have-made-a-long-enough-descent-into-the-void-to-speak-with/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

> [A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/a-soul-trembling-to-sit-by-a-hearth-so-bright-to-exist-again-it-s/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

> [In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/in-reading-a-lonely-quiet-concert-is-given-to-our-minds-all-our/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

> [O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/o-naked-flower-of-my-lips-you-lie-i-await-a-thing-unknown-or-perhaps/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

> [“...for we are always at one with the instrument of our magic spells.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/for-we-are-always-at-one-with-the-instrument-of-our-magic-spells/)

[Stéphane Mallarmé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

> [“exiled spirits, red as the spotless toe of a seraph spread with scarlet by the shame of rumpled dawns”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/exiled-spirits-red-as-the-spotless-toe-of-a-seraph-spread-with/)

[Stéphane Mallarmé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

> [The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/the-reproach-that-superficial-people-formulate-against-manet-that/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

> [A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/a-throw-of-the-dice-will-never-abolish-chance/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

> [As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/as-for-me-poetry-takes-the-place-of-love-because-it-is-enamored-of/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

> [It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/it-is-in-front-of-the-the-paper-that-the-artist-creates-himself/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

> [Yes, I know, we are merely empty forms of matter, but we are indeed sublime in having invented God and our soul. So sublime,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/yes-i-know-we-are-merely-empty-forms-of-matter-but-we-are-indeed/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

> [The world exists to end up in a book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/the-world-exists-to-end-up-in-a-book/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

> [Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/everything-that-is-sacred-and-that-wishes-to-remain-so-must-envelop/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

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