the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.