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Nothing can be done except little by little.

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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare:...more

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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

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The beautiful is always bizarre.

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He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he belie...more

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

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The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you ...more

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The Beautiful is always strange.

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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time impli...more

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Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteris...more

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L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.

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