For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.