“To be in love with pain-to pine after aching-is not that a wicked madness?” MadnessMasochismMp ShielThe 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...” FireMadnessLondon 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.” East And West 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” NightSleepDrugsDecadenceDecadent Book:Xélucha and Others Source: Xélucha and Others