Quotes by : Jean Lorrain

The charm of horror only tempts the strong

But that woman is an encyclopedia!Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf....

March 1898What a strange dream I had last night! I wandered in the warm streets of a port, in the low....

The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they....

There is nothing to be found in human eyes, and that is their terrifying and dolorous enigma, their abominable....

And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation....

In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever....

I had, therefore, to resign myself to commissioning a duplicate from a jeweller in Madrid. They did the....

Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous....

To dream! Such dreams certainly make life more worth living... and only dreams can do that for me.