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

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

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

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.