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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

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How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

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Nothing can be done except little by little.

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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

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Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

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Everything for me becomes allegory.

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

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We are all born marked for evil.

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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

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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.

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To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

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