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“To be in love with pain-to pine after aching-is not that a wicked madness?”

Madness Masochism Mp Shiel The House Of Sounds

Book:The House of Sounds

Source: The House of Sounds

“It was while I was seated in an easy-chair in the street the following evening, smoking, watching the combustion of this structure, that something was suddenly born in me, something out of Hell, and I smiled a smile that never man smiled. And I said: 'I will burn: I will return to London...”

Fire Madness London

Book:The Purple Cloud

Source: The Purple Cloud

“Man is folly itself. Let this one fact only be considered: those same Greeks believed that they alone of the nations possessed the thing they called philosophia — the love of the subtleties of wisdom; and even while they were thus believing, the Vedic Hymns had been sung; the Brahmin had codified the intricate activities of the Attributes Sut, Raj, and Tum; and the Boodh had denied that Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahadeva were emanations of the Spirit of God. Such is the inborn vanity and shallowness of man.”

Book:Shapes in the Fire

Source: Shapes in the Fire

“The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture which has become necessary to my life”

Night Sleep Drugs Decadence Decadent

Book:Xélucha and Others

Source: Xélucha and Others

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