Villiers De L'Isle-Adam Quotes

Brunettes are full of electricity.

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

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?

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

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

Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?

If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well.

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

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?

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.

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

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