“The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations.” PeopleMenRealGovernmentLawWealthRichWorstCrimeExampleBirthMadnessShameBoredBoredomFancyCowardiceProtectedDefectsWretchedMonstrousRich ManServerAberration Author:Jean Lorrain
“The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire.” KnowsStillsMightEyeAbleDesireDarkSeaMadnessProfoundDepthBottomAbyssPupilsLureRedeemedSirensOphelia Book:Monsieur de Phocas Source: Monsieur de Phocas
