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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
Progress, this great heresy of decay.
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
We are all born marked for evil.
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
Music fathoms the sky.
Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
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