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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 found all sensual delight.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
- Eternal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
- Conclude
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
- Brainy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inspiration comes of working every day.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
- Habitual
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 its essential quality of being the present.
- Except
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can be done except little by little.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
- Despair
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
- Nov 07, 2020
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
- Nov 07, 2020
Music fathoms the sky.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
- Great Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
- Hysteria
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
- Lines
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- Nov 07, 2020
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
- Nov 07, 2020
What is art? Prostitution.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all born marked for evil.
- Becomes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything for me becomes allegory.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progress, this great heresy of decay.
- Fellow
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- Nov 07, 2020