The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
Everything for me becomes allegory
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.
An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.
The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.
Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.
The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground in the midst of the jeering crowd, his giant's wings keep him from walking.
The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.
Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.
There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.
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.
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
Inspiration comes of working every day.
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.
What is art? Prostitution.
The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling . . . and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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