The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;We find delight in the most loathsome things;Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.
No hay excusa para la maldad; pero el que es malo, si lo sabe, tiene algún mérito; el vicio más irreparable es el de hacer el mal por tontería.
I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.
Flesh is willing, but the Soul requiresSisyphean patience for its song,Time, Hippocrates remarked, is shortand Art is long.
The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Nature can counsel nothing but crime.
La Terre est un gâteau plein de douceur.
In certain almost supernatural states of mind, the profundity of life is revealed in its entirety in the spectacle, common as it may be, that we have before our eyes. It becomes the symbol of it.
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
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 str...
I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.
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,...
Hypocrite lecteur, – mon semblable, – mon frère !
Madre de los juegos latinos y los deleites griegos, Lesbos, donde los besos, lánguidos o gozosos,cálidos como soles, frescos como las sandías,son el adorno de noches y días gloriosos;madre de los jueg...
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.