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Eternal superiority of the Dandy. What is the Dandy?
Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.
Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.
The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.
Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance
I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
Cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household.
Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.
What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.
What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
Il faut e pater le bourgeois. One must astound the bourgeois.
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.
Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams, words!
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.
A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.