/lit/ - Literature

>There are, in literary history, similar destinies, real damnations, - men who carry the word "bad luck" written in mysterious characters upon the sinuous folds of their forehead.
>Is there, then, a diabolical Providence that prepares misfortune from the cradle, - that throws with premeditation spiritual and angelic natures into hostile environments, like martyrs in the circus?
>Such was the case for Poe.
>Lamentable tragedy! the life of Poe! His death, a horrible destitution whose horror is increased by triviality! - From all the documents I have read, I am convinced that the United States was for Poe only a vast prison which he wandered through with the feverish agitation of a being made to breathe in a more aromatic world, but instead lived in a barbaric world with gas-lights, and that his inner life, the spiritual life of a poet or even of a drunkard, was only a perpetual effort to escape the influence of the culture-less atmosphere of his native land.

>>18221742
>you begin to master your native tongue by studying another one.

>The dandy must aspire to become sublime, without interruption. He must therefore live and sleep in front of a mirror.

>Being a useful man has always been something hideous to me.

>Belief in progress is a doctrine for the lazy, a doctrine for Belgians. One must depend on one's neighbors for sustenance. Progress only exists in the individual and by the individual. The world however is filled with people who can only think in groups, in gangs. And so we have Belgians. There are also people who can only have fun in groups; the true hero can have fun all by himself.

>Despite the French revolution being atheist, they have proven to be superstitious: they needed to sacrifice many by decapitation in order to bring about their version of paradise. Unfortunately, if it truly is unfortunate, once they ran out of nobles to bring to their altar of sacrifice, that is to say the guillotine, for their doctrine of progress, they began to decapitate their own.

What did he mean by this?

>>16179258
>There are some men who begin to blush for having loved a woman, the day they find out she is stupid.
>Stupidity is often one of Beauty's ornaments
>Stupidity is always the way by which nature talks; it keeps the wrinkles away

>>16001574
unfair pic desu. that was after 2 decades of heavy drinking and smoking hash with opium