I ask every thinking man to show me what remains of life. - Charles Baudelaire

Certainly this man, such as I have described him, this loner who is gifted with an active imagination, traversing forever the vast desert of men, has a loftier aim than that of a simple idler, an aim more general than the passing pleasure of circumstance. He is looking for what one might be allowed to call modernity; for no better word presents itself to express the idea in question. What concerns him is to release the poetry of fashion from its historical trappings, to draw the eternal out of the transient.

I am a cemetery loathed by the moon.

There are in every man, at all times, two simultaneous tendencies, one toward God, the other toward Satan.