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...
Who in the face of love dares speak to me of Hell!-
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…
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...
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...
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.
Aimer et mourirAu pays qui te ressemble!
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...
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time's horrible burden that breaks your shoulders and bows you down, you must get drunk without c...
Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer ou Ciel, qu'importe? / Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du NOUVEAU! (rough translation : Into the abyss -- Heaven or Hell, what difference does it make? / To the dep...
La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beautéLuxe, calme et volupté
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...
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 the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, po...
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
A vida é um hospital cujos pacientes são obcecados pela troca das camas. Este quer sofrer frente a fornalha, aquele outro pensa que melhorará caso se mantenha perto da janela. Sempre me pareceu que eu...
Your eyes, brilliant as shop windows Or as blazing lamp-stands at public festivals, Insolently use a borrowed power Without ever knowing the law of their beauty. Blind,