To study in Paris is to be born in Paris! Les Misérables
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering -- a hell of boredom. Les Misérables
All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner... Ecce Homo
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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