“An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.”

“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”

“The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;We find delight in the most loathsome things;Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”

“La soledad es el estado propio del genio y del elegido.”

“Fruit free of any bruises, not yet broken open, / With flesh so firm and smooth, it cried out to be eaten!”

“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”

“I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.”