It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
From Charles Baudelaire
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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