There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
I am the vampire at my own veins.
Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!
The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.