Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.
I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not quite, even if the reader knows all this better than I do. One thing a book tries to do, beneath the disguise of words and causes and clothes and grief, is show the skeleton and the skeleton dust to come. The author too, like those of whom he speaks, is dead.
The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.
By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.
Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.
Creation is not a light-hearted game. The creator commits to a terrible adventure, which is to take up-on himself all of the dangers that his creatures run.
Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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