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
Alfred de MussetWhat I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.
Alfred de MussetYouโre like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. Youโre alone, so you think itโs a vast, magnificent panorama. You havenโt sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of Godโs creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep
Alfred de Musset