Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest the soldier the...
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist Religion would still be Saintly...
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish and...
France is not poetic she even feels in fact a congenital horror of poetry....
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an...
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time be...
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time get...
Always be a poet even in prose.
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists because nothing...
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man...
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Music fathoms the sky.
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music and it...
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of...
I love Wagner but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail...
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
For the merchant even honesty is a financial speculation.
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family just as the lover of...
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little and...
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to...
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
Beauty is the sole ambition the exclusive goal of Taste.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before...
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
