9 Quotes by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time.

Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.

And in any case...there are no more supernatural noises nowadays...

Brunettes are full of electricity.

I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?

Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?

The Android, as we've said, is only the first hours of Love, immobilized, the hour of the ideal made eternal prisoner