+Dandy & Aesthetic Quotes I like.<3+
Mainly coming from the adaptation of Dorian by Will Self but still…x3
”Excusez-moi,il faut toujours que je me regarde dans une glace quand quelqu’un m’accuse de me conduire mal. La mauvaise conscience est tellement narcissique.”
Translation:”I beg you pardon, I always need to look at myslef in a mirror when someone accuse me for doing something bad. Bad consciousness about ourselfs is so narcissic.”
[…]Dorian était l’un de ces êtres insolites qui transforment en réalité les fictions qu’ils ne sont incapable d’écrire (bien plus divertissants que ces poseurs qui écrivent des fictions quils n’osent pas réaliser)[…]”
Translation:[…]Dorian was one of those unusual people that turns into reality fictions that he would not be able to write (a way more entertaining than those poseurs who write fictions that they would never make come true)[…]
”Oh, mais je t`assure Baz, que je vénère mon corps comme un sanctuaire. Seulement c’est un sanctuaire qui n’admet que des cérémonies orgiaques exigeant l’usage de drogues psychothropes.”
Translation:”Oh, but I swear you Baz, I do worship my body as a sanctuary. However, it’s a sanctuary that admits only orgiac ceremonies that needs the use of psychadelic drugs.”
-Dorian by Will Self (Sorry, I have the french version of the book, so my translations might be major crap for the one that possess it in english…)
”Ainsi ses tendances vers l’artifice, ses besoins d’excentricité, n’étaient-ils pas, en somme des résultats d’études spécieuses, de raffinements quasi extra-terrestres, de spéculations quasi-théologiques; c’était, au fond, des transports, des élans vers un univers inconnu, vers une béatitude lointaine, désirable comme celle que nous promettent les Écritures.”
-À Rebours by Huysman
“ “From black-rimmed plates they ate turtle soup and eaten Russian rye bread, ripe Turkish olives, caviar, salted mullet-roe, smoked Frankfurt black puddings, game in gravies the colour of liquorice and boot-blacking truffled sauces, chocolate caramel creams, plum puddings, nectarines, preserved fruits, mulberries and heart-cherries; from dark coloured glasses they drank the wines of Limagne and Rousillon, of Tenedoes, Val de Peñas and Oporto, and, after the coffee and the walnut cordial they enjoyed kvass, porters and stouts.” ”
—Joris-Karl Huysman’s Against Nature, pg. 11
I secretly want to have this feast. Every food item is black or very dark in color, how cool is that? Who has some money to fund this because it would be fantastic.
