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“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
“Every angel is terrifying.”
― Duino Elegies
― Duino Elegies
“The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”
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“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ”
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“Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.”
― Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
― Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
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