We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
Without resistance you can do nothing
People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.
It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.
Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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