Nothing can be done except little by little.
From Charles Baudelaire
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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