You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
Because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.
Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.