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“Ainsi ses tendances vers l’artifice, ses besoins d’excentricité, n’étaient-ils pas, en somme, des résultats d’études spécieuses, de raffinements extraterrestres, de spéculations quasi-théologiques ; c’étaient, au fond, des transports, des élans vers un idéal, vers un univers inconnu, vers une béatitude lointaine, désirable comme celle que nous promettent les Écritures.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Il n’est point d’homme qui ne veuille être despote quand il bande.”
― Marquis de Sade

“Evil has always had great effects in its favor. And nature is evil. Let us therefore be natural." That is the secret reasoning of those who have mastered the most spectacular effects, and they have all too often been considered great human beings.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Le danger n'est pas que l'âme doute s'il y a ou non du pain, mais qu'elle se persuade par un mensonge qu'elle n'a pas faim. Elle ne peut se le persuader que par un mensonge, car la réalité de sa faim n'est pas une croyance, c'est une certitude.”
― Simone Weil

“C'è chi cammina in mezzo a un popolo come in mezzo a una foresta d'alberi tutti eguali, indifferente; ma c'è qualcuno, continuamente ansioso, che cerca in ogni volto la muta risposta a una muta domanda. Per costui non ci sono su la terra stranieri.”
― Gabriele D'Annunzio

“The greater the void, the greater the divine influx.”
― John Tauler

“There are no more than two or three crimes to commit in the world,’ said Curval. ‘Once those are done there is no more to be said – what remains is inferior and one no longer feels a thing. How many times, good God, have I not wished it were possible to attack the sun, to deprive the universe of it, or to use it to set the world ablaze – those would be crimes indeed, and not the little excesses in which we indulge, which do no more than metamorphose, in the course of a year, a dozen creatures into clods of earth.”
― Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom