Jean Lorrain Quotes

#1. I am an idea in an era that has no more of them.

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#2. The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead.

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#3. To dream! Such dreams certainly make life more worth living ... and only dreams can do that for me.

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#4. (Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise

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#5. It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

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#6. You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I'm terrified by reality.

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#7. In France, it is only permissible to admire statues but tropical countries have no such prejudices, and the emergent Oriental in me took full account of the admirable proportions and the harmony of the movements of the acrobat on the stage.

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#8. Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.

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#9. And it seemed that my flesh crawled with the gentleness of those glaucous things evoked by the verse. It was as if fingertips, like cut emeralds or fresh olives, were stroking the palm of my hand.

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#10. The charm of horror only tempts the strong

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#11. But that woman is an encyclopedia!
Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!

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#12. A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!

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#13. Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her own banal, perfidious pollution.

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#14. The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I admit that I have submitted to it all; worse, I have loved with all my heart.

Jean Lorrain