My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?

- Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.

- Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lav…

- Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?

- Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows w…

- Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.

- Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well.

- Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

- Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Brunettes are full of electricity.

- Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam