I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.
La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.
La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.
