The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
A multitude of small delights constitute happiness
There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?
I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.
Evil comes up softly like a flower.
One can only forget about time by making use of it.
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.
The beautiful is always bizarre.
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
Remembering is only a new form of suffering.
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.
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