Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
From Charles Baudelaire
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
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