Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act up….

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, inaudibl….

Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserv….

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….

on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body..

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born..

I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice of the blood, or t….

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad..

In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down st….

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens….

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, righ….

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me..

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all..

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivi….

First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it al….

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general'….

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house..

I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, u….

Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure kno….

The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice..