Occupation: Writer Birth: December 26, 1891 Death: June 7, 1980
For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will redu….
Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown..
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'.
When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written..
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment..
Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inev….
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown..
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it..
Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's differe….
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts..
Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.
A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way….
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such..
We create our fate everyday.
What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wonderin….
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way..
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama..
It was only in my forties that I started feeling young..
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of….
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning..
When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into deep, black space. A….