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Henri-Léopold Levy, 1840-1904

Orphée et Eurydice, ca.1870/74, huile sur toile, 61x42.5 cm

Private Collection

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Alois Hans Schram (detail)

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Jean Siméon Chardin: Attributes of the Arts, 1731, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris

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Apollo and Hermes

Statues at the Sansoucci Park

Adherence to men is often disloyalty to principle.

John Taylor of Caroline

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

TS Eliot

The Dry Salvages

Do not deny the immortality of the soul, God's wisdom, the value of life, the order of the universe, physical beauty, the love of the family, marriage, social institutions.

Comte de Lautréamont

Poésies, Part I

I replace melancholy by courage, doubt by certainty, despair by hope, malice by good, complaints by duty, scepticism by faith, sophisms by cool equanimity, and pride by modesty

Comte de Lautréamont

Poésies I, 1870

I have written of evil as Mickiewicz, Byron, Milton, Southey, A. de Musset, Baudelaire, and others have all done. Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy. Thus it is always, after all, the good which is the subject, only the method is more philosophical and less naive than that of the old school...is that the evil? No, certainly not.

Comte de Lautréamont

Letter, October 23, 1869