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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

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There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

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Genius is childhood recalled at will.

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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

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Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

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