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

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

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

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

In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.

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.