Occupation: Composer Birth: December 30, 1910 Death: November 18, 1999
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary..
We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fa….
It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's no friction in it. There'….
One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that t….
That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doub….
[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, wh….
If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another..
How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless..
Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade..
He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just come. If he had not t….
No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massag….
I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, d….
You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are dark and hard to….
The soul is the weariest part of the body..
Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as n….
I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel ….
Although I knew enough Freud to believe that the sex urge was an important mainspring of life, it still seemed to me that any conscious manifestation….
Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next, mo….
The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above..
Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west..
The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpat….