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- The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is…
- There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
- For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
- It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
- Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
- It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
- Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch…
- The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to…
- The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely…
- To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an…
- If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more…
- All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and…
- 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…
- 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…
- Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
- There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind…
- A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds…
- Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
- The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek…
- If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more…
- Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,…
- Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths…
- The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
- Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means…
- Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels…
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