Nomen est Omen

“Baudelaire had gone further; he had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

“le soir ramène le silence”
― Alphonse de Lamartine, Méditations poétiques

“Le rêve est l'aquarium de la nuit”
― Victor Hugo, Les Travailleurs De La Mer, II

“he felt a glow of pleasure at the idea that here he would be too far out for the tidal wave of Parisian life to reach him, and yet near enough for the proximity of the capital to strengthen him in his solitude.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature