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

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom.

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.