“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
― Leaves of Grass
― Leaves of Grass
“How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.”
― Les Prosperites du Vice
― Les Prosperites du Vice
“Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace”
― The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
― The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”
― Song of Myself
― Song of Myself
“The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.”
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