“I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.”

I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.

Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.

What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.

You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.

As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.

The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.

To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

When opportunity came, the person didn’t realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.

If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.