Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
From Charles Baudelaire
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
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