Quotes by : Jean Lorrain

(Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise

The charm of horror only tempts the strong

8 April 1891The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered....

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....

Against a set of desolate scenery, amid spectral crags and livid mountains of ash, beneath the funereal....

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

At this point, the sequence of my memories is disrupted.I sank into a chaos of brief, incoherent and....

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

His fame as an artist requires very tender care. Look what a mask of diplomacy is painstakingly formed....