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.
Always be a poet, even in prose.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Bajo una luz ya mortecinase agita y baila sin razónla Vida aullante y libertina,en tanto, lejos del turbión,se alza la noche en el confíny calma aun el hambre en torno;todo lo borra: hasta el bochorno...
And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.
The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himse...
The act of love greatly resembles torture or surgery.
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.
I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.
Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.
Nature can counsel nothing but crime.
Nature is a temple in which living pillars Sometimes give voice to confused words;
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
Her voice makes perfume when she speaks,Her breath is music faint and low.
The Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love
The Beautiful is always strange.
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