Jean Lorrain quotes

“You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.”
-- Jean Lorrain

Source : Jean Lorrain (2002). “Nightmares of an Ether-drinker”

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“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.”
-- Jean Lorrain

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“The charm of horror only tempts the strong”
-- Jean Lorrain

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“It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.”
-- Jean Lorrain

Source : Jean Lorrain (2002). “Nightmares of an Ether-drinker”

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“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.”
-- Jean Lorrain

Source : Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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“Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.”
-- Jean Lorrain

Source : Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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“Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her own banal, perfidious pollution.”
-- Jean Lorrain

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“Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can really see. Like you, he has an obsession with masks; he is a seer as you and I are. The common herd, of course thinks that he is mad.*****************You shall see what sort of man Ensor is, and what a marvellous insight he has into the invisible realm where our vices are created... those vices for which our faces make masks.”
-- Jean Lorrain

Source : Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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“The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead.”
-- Jean Lorrain

Source : Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”

“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.184, Macmillan

“We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.”

“The visible and invisible worlds are inextricably intertwined... once you’ve opened your eyes to this, you can dance between them.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from May 26, 2016

“Beyond my body my veins are invisible.”

“There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.”

“In my case dust has become Gold”

“I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.”

Source : Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1903, Del Rey

“Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case.”

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 17, 1946.

“Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.”