5 quotes found
“Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.”
“Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.”
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cyni...”
“The heart, said to be man’s noblest organ, has the same shape as the penis, commonly supposed the most ignoble; the symbolism is not inappropriate, because the love which comes from the heart soon ...”
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on the waxen brow of death: ah, that is something like it. A delicious ...”
