Quotes from Jules Laforgue

What a day-to-day affair life is.

Oh, how daily life is.

Oh, how daily life is. (Ah, que la vie est quotidienne.)

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

I shall have spent my life in railway stations Nearly departing For catastrophes, All for love And my heart haloed with the madness of love. Nothing is quite so beautiful as the trains I've missed …

And above it all, the gentle, eternal stars.

O who can cure Poor little Andromeda Naughty naughty Naughty thing Tears run down her childish breast, the song being so sad. The shower has already passed and now the wind ruffles her hair, and it's squalling everywhere… Naughty naughty Miaow Miaow Since no one comes to help me I'll throw myself in the water!

Ô Terre, ô terre, ô race humaine, / vous me faites bien de la peine.

I am in love, that's enough: I feel generous, holy, human, trembling, from "Thunderbolt