By making himself a priest made himself a demon.
Why, there's the air, the sky, the morning, the evening, moonlight, my friends, women, the beautiful architecture of Paris to study, three big books to write and all sorts of other things. Anaxagoras...
What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...
True, I tore the drapery from the altar; but it was to dress the wounds of the country.
To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.
The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.
The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.
The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers.
The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes.
Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.
Reality in strong doses frightens.
One becomes gradually accustomed to poison.
La sua vita era ancora troppo breve, per sapere che non c'è cosa più imminente dell'impossibile, e che quanto dobbiamo sempre prevedere è l'imprevisto.
La nada no existe. Cero no existe. Todo es algo. Nada es nada.
It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
In front marched Egypt. The Duke of Egypt at their head, on horseback, with his counts on foot, holding his bridle and stirrups; behind them the Egyptians, men and women, in any order, with their youn...
Hommes et femmes de Londres, me voici. Je vous félicite cordialement d'être anglais. Vous êtes un grand peuple. Je dis plus, vous êtes une grande populace. Vos coups de poing sont encore plus beaux qu...
He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had already, in some preceding existence, been through the revolutionary apocalypse. He knew its tradit...
He opposed the hardness acquired during the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortu...