I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living..

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning….

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.

The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to b….

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing betwe….

And war is wonderful, isn't it? For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step. In or….

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of hu….

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others..

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reco….

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape..

It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in….

I myself am an absolute abyss..

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain s….

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness..

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is….

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination..

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man trie….

I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life..

I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him..

There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They wi….

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life..