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What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

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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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Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

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

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To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet remain hidden from the world...more

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Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

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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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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

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That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity—that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and aston...more

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The Beautiful is always strange.

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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

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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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Flesh is willing, but the Soul requiresSisyphean patience for its song,Time, Hippocrates remarked, is shortand Art is long.

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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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I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, W...more