Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.

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

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Remembering is only a new form of suffering.

It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.