Villiers De L'Isle-Adam Quotes

#1. Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life.

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#2. Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time.

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#3. Brunettes are full of electricity.

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#4. There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

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#5. Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.

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#6. My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?

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#7. The Earth, dost thou say? What has the Earth ever realized, that drop of frozen mud, whose Time is only a lie in the Heavens?

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#8. Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.

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#9. Live? Our servants will do that for us..

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#10. I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?

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#11. I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.

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#12. The Android, as we've said, is only the first hours of Love, immobilized, the hour of the ideal made eternal prisoner

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#13. And in any case ... there are no more supernatural noises nowadays ...

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#14. Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured! ... What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

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