Seek not my heart; the beasts have eaten it - Charles Baudelaire

Have you sunk into so deep a stupor that you are happy only in your unhappiness?

-Anywhere, Out of this World

Perhaps it would be sweet to be, in turn, both victim and executioner.

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, and coldly determined to seek the means of expressing passion in the most visible manner. In this dual character, be it said in passing, we find the two distinguishing marks of the most substantial geniuses, extreme geniuses.