To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.
Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.
Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.
Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.
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.
Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.
Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.
Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.
The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.
The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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