Absinthe Quote by Marie Corelli

In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all, I urge…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“Madness and passion have always been interchangeable. Throughout the entire western literary tradition. Madness is an abundance of existence. Madness is a way of…

— Patricia Duncker

“English: Ô, take this eager dance you fool, don’t brandish your stick at me. I have several reasons to travel on, on to the…

— Roman Payne

“The arrival in Paris, as grim as ever. The leprous façades of the Pont Cardinet flats, behind which one invariably imagines retired folk agonizing…

— Michel Houellebecq

“almost exquisite, the slight madness”

— James Tate

In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was…

— Michel Foucault

“Today I awoke from a sound sleep with curses of joy on my lips, with gibberish on my tongue, repeating to myself like a…

— Henry Miller

Vive la France libre.

— Pierre Trudeau

“The marvellous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so exactly, or rather because it…

— Michel Foucault

I love the idea of the literary salons in France where artists and writers would all come and talk and drink absinthe.

— Lisa Joy

“Were you ever in France, Mr. Martin?" said Candide. "Yes," said Martin, "I have been in several provinces. In some one-half of the people…

— Voltaire

“Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their…

— Mark Twain