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"In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us."
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"In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us."
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"The world is shaken by major events, but it is 'transformed' by slight subtleties. And while we may be far too small to create even one major event, we are just the right size to craft a thousand subtleties."
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"The erotic is not about nudity and nudity is rarely erotic. The erotic is subtle, a feeling, a gesture, a mood, a story frozen in the moment that holds you breathless waiting for the next moment. Understand this, and you understand the erotic."
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"There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast."
Love
"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."
Beauty
"Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?"
Nature
"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."
Literature
"Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!"
Reading
"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
Society
"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
Poetry
"Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine."
Religion
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work
"France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."
Poetry
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