39 quotes found
“I am the soul in limbo.”
“The imaginary is what tends to become real.”
“May night continue to fall upon the orchestra”
“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”
“Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.”
“Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.”
“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”
“Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.”
“Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high ...”
“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all ...”
“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
“Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.”
“Il faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec la perspective d’un réel futur qui ne vaille guère mieux. Chaque minute pleine porte en elle-même ...”
“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”
“The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight ...”
“Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.”
“Because of the earth’s roundness, Genghis Khan, in the fever of possession and destruction, hastened his own overthrow by invading lands that he had already razed and conquered. Not only is it impo...”
“The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows”
“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.”
“(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.”
“There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whos...”
“What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.”
