You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.

It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her own banal, perfidious pollution.

The charm of horror only tempts the strong

Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.

Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can really see. Like you, he has an obsession with masks; he is a seer as you and I are. The common herd, of course thinks that he is mad.*****************You shall see what sort of man Ensor is, and what a marvellous insight he has into the invisible realm where our vices are created... those vices for which our faces make masks.

You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.