The Insect at the Home of a Mutual Friend : QUOTEBAG

Right now we’d like to dedicate this to everybody here with hearts, any kind of hearts, and ears – it goes something like this here…

– Jimi Hendrix

At least I am speaking to someone who understands me, and not to one of the cabbages in whose midst I have been vegetating since morning.

– Laclos

I don’t think I’d ever plan anything out carefully, and certainly not that. If I went to the devil it would be because I wanted to, or because it’s a good drug, or because I don’t give a damn for my idiotic body of a woman anyway.

He’s only trying to be modern and brutal and all that, poor dear. Don’t mind him.

– Jean Rhys

Observe her carefully when she is sitting alone, thinking; why she looks like one foredestined to everything accursed and damnable in the world.

– Dostoevsky

This warped, decadent youth was once an angelic child.

– August Strindberg

"What?" said Mrs. Reed under her breath: her usually cold composed grey eye became troubled with a look of fear: she took her hand from my arm and looked at me as if she really did not know if I were child or fiend.

– Charlotte Bronte

I myself have a horror of the commonplace, and I dream only of strange adventures, strong passions, delirious ecstasies, bizarre and difficult situations, and I have to find pure and simple happiness that way, and, try as I may, I haven’t been able to find another.

– Theophile Gautier

Delirium passes the time, but it’s ticklish when anyone’s around.

– Celine

"But if Mr. Holgrave is a lawless person!" remonstrated Phoebe, a part of whose essence it was to keep within the limits of law.

"Oh!" said Hepzibah, carelessly – for, formal as she was, still in her life experience, she had gnashed her teeth against human law, "I suppose he has a law of his own!"

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

He was in a fair way to do himself lasting harm, floundering between worlds passed and worlds coming, which had a habit of crushing men who stayed too long at the point of contact.

– Henry Adams

He startles those who do not like to be startled, and does not compose those who wish to be composed.

– Walter Bageliot

Such is the unhappy age in which we live that not even the strangest aberrations are a cure for boredom.

– Stendhal

Until this time his career could be summed up as that of a moderately independent artist with a conservative background, who had offended a few dogmatic academicians, but from 1885 on he offended nearly everyone, even some of his closest associates.

– John David Farmer

He was regarded as a true visionary artist, or one who portrays through art his personal visions of the "divine light" and out of body experiences of "union with the Mother Goddess" i.e. sexual intercourse with demons.

– Barbara Aho

The fact is that modern artists are gnostics and practice things that the priests think are long forgotten; perhaps even commit sins that are no longer thought possible.

What Nietzsche calls "decadence" and Marx calls the "ideological superstructure" is here simply called the state university.

– Hugo Ball