 The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. |
| Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. |
| It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. |
| For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved. |
| Progress, this great heresy of decay. |
| Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself. |
| A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. Topics: Art |
| God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist. |
| Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? |
| To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. |
| I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. |
| Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! |
| Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. |
| Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. |
| How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. |
| Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. |
| The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight. |
| In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. |
| Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. |
| The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. |
