Top 29 Quotes About Lorrain
#1. Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT)
Jennifer Birkett
#2. Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.
Geneen Roth
#3. Come back, paragraphs. America needs you.
Merlin Mann
#4. I am an idea in an era that has no more of them.
Jean Lorrain
#5. Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.
Franz Grillparzer
#6. 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.
Jean Lorrain
#7. To dream! Such dreams certainly make life more worth living ... and only dreams can do that for me.
Jean Lorrain
#8. I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
Patricia MacLachlan
#9. The fascinated loathing which he (Jean Lorrain) cultivated for the decadence of fin de siecle Paris has a good deal of envy and ardent desire in it; in the words of Hubert Juin, he 'loved his epoch to the point of detestation.'
(Introduction: "The Life And Career Of Jean Lorrain)
Francis Amery
#10. (Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise
Jean Lorrain
#11. It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.
Jean Lorrain
#12. You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I'm terrified by reality.
Jean Lorrain
#13. 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.
Jean Lorrain
#14. Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
Andy Hargreaves
#15. Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.
Jean Lorrain
#16. 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.
Jean Lorrain
#17. Whenever I go on holiday, I like to time travel and imagine what it must have been like 500 years ago. I love the Tuscan landscape, which is reminiscent of a Claude Lorrain painting.
Jools Holland
#18. The charm of horror only tempts the strong
Jean Lorrain
#19. But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand - If it is to be done, it must be by studying Humboldt.
Charles Darwin
#20. But that woman is an encyclopedia!
Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!
Jean Lorrain
#21. A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!
Jean Lorrain
#22. With a shaky hand he reached out and took the phone away from her and nearly groaned when he realized that his little recluse was watching an instructional video on her phone.
R.L. Mathewson
#23. When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.
Alison Moyet
#24. Eventually, if we are going to wake up and truly come home to our own heartmind, we have to turn the full scope of our life into a practice space. This doesn't have to start as an all-the-time endeavor, but little by little it is said that our awareness practice can become a constant companion. It
Ethan Nichtern
#25. Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.
Jennifer Birkett
#26. 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.
Jean Lorrain
#27. 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
#28. Guess - You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well," said Morgan, "I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness." The
Mary Doria Russell
#29. I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.
Paul Ryan
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