"You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t ..."
- Alfred de Musset
"Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives"
"Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest"
"Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?"
"The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer"
"Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what sec..."
"There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow."
"There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings"
"Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!"
"Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?"