Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
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.
If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.
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.
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.
Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.
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.
The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
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.
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 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.
From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him one little pet. He is my household's guardian soul; He judges, he presides, inspires All matters in his royal realm; Might he be fairy? or a god? When my eyes, to this cat I love Drawn as by a magnet's force, Turn tamely back upon that appeal, And when I look within myself, I notice with astonishment The fire of his opal eyes, Clear beacons glowing, living jewels, Taking my measure, steadily.
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.
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