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

Quote by Charles Baudelaire

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical...

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical...

We are all born marked for evil.

We are all born marked for evil.

Music fathoms the sky.

Music fathoms the sky.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to...

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to...

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of...

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of...

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and...

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and...

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the...

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the...

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

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

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But...

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But...

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you...

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you...

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of...

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of...

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you...

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you...

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.