Qui aimes-tu le mieux, homme énigmatique, dis? ton père, ta mère, ta soeur ou ton frère?- Je n'ai ni père, ni mère, ni soeur, ni frère.- Tes amis?- Vous vous servez là d'une parole dont le sens m'est...
«¡Oh, mentes candorosas!»Para que no se olvide el tema capital,por doquier hemos visto sin haberlo buscado,de lo excelso a lo bajo de la escala fatal,el tedioso espectáculo del inmortal pecado:»la muj...
Tu,care-mi legeni somnul cu mângâieri uşoareSă nu ştii niciodată cumplitu-mi nenorocNici taina scrisă-n mine cu litere de foc!De patimă mi-e silă şi orice gând mă doare…
To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but...
The Desire To PaintUnhappy perhaps is the man, but happy the artist, who is torn with this desire.I burn to paint a certain woman who has appeared to me so rarely, and so swiftly fled away, like some...
Lost in this awful world, rubbing shoulders with the multitudes, I am like a tired man whose eye can't see behind him, in the deep years, anything but disillusion and bitterness, and in front of him,...
Doar moartea consolează și-ndeamnă a trăi;e idealul vieții și e nădejdea toată,e elixirul care ne-animă și ne-mbată și care dă puterea să mai trăim o zi.
Derrière les ennuis et les vastes chagrinsQui chargent de leur poids l'existence brumeuse,Heureux celui qui peut d'une aile vigoureuseS'élancer vers les champs lumineux et sereins
Conceive a canvas for a lyrical or fairytale buffoonery, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown everything in an abnormal and dreamy atmosphere, - in the atmosphere of the great...
Celui qui regarde du dehors à travers une fenêtre ouverte, ne voit jamais autant de choses que celui qui regarde une fenêtre fermée.
Be always drunken.Nothing else matters:that is the only question.If you would not feelthe horrible burden of Timeweighing on your shouldersand crushing you to the earth,be drunken continually.Drunken...
Avalanche, veux-tu m'emporter dans ta chute?
Believe I already wrote in my notes that love was very similar to torture or surgery. But this idea can be developed in a most bitter way. Even if two lovers are very much in love and full of mutual d...
They are alike, prim scholar and perfervid lover:When comes the season of decay, they both decideUpon sweet, husky cats to be the household pride;Cats choose, like them, to sit, and like them, shudder...
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
In this respect you, unworthy companion of my sad life, resemble the public, to whom one must never present the delicate scents that only exasperate them, but instead give them only dung, chosen with...
I'm not saying that the world will be reduced to expedient means and ridiculous disorder of the South American republics, - that we could maybe even return to savagery, and walk through the overgrown...
I know that pain is the one nobility / upon which Hell itself cannot encroach
Comme les anges à l'oeil fauve,Je reviendrai dans ton alcôveEt vers toi glisserai sans bruitAvec les ombres de la nuit;Et je te donnerai, ma brune,Des baisers froids comme la luneEt des caresses de se...
Au-dessus des étangs, au-dessus des vallées,Des montagnes, des bois, des nuages, des mers,Par delà le soleil, par delà les éthers,Par delà les confins des sphères étoilées