La musique avant toute chose. - Paul Verlaine

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I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

Paul Verlaine

La musique avant toute chose.

Avant, Chose, Musique, Practice, Toute

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I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

Decadence, Empire, Empires, Ends

I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.

Army, Capacity, Civilization, Invading, Spring, Word

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.

Beats, Flower, Flowers, Heart, Love

Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

Air, Choose, Irregular, Melts, Music, Music Is

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

Fall, Heart, Like, Rain, Town

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