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- All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of… All
- The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,… Advance
- The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… All
- There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for. Giving
- The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity… All
- There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and… Act
- On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose… Corrects
- Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal.… All
- I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a… Continually
- There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to… Allegiance
- As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented,… Agility
- What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad! Beautiful
- A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. Art
- Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities. Adults
- It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist. Art
- Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. Arms
- You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself… Able
- Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the… Art
- Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and… Almost Divine
- Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are… Art
- The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief. Art
- My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't… Best
- Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror. Familiar
- Everything for me becomes allegory Allegory
- Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty! Beauty
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