36 quotes found
“I am the soul in limbo.”
“The imaginary is what tends to become real.”
“May night continue to fall upon the orchestra”
“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”
“Tell me whom you haunt and Ill tell you who you are.”
“Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.”
“There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own lifes meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose...”
“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
“My wife with the hair of a wood fireWith the thoughts of heat lightningWith the waist of an hourglassWith the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tigerMy wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bu...”
“Lifes greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.”
“Il faut que lhomme svade de cette lice ridicule quon lui a faite: le prtendu rel actuel avec la perspective dun rel futur qui ne vaille gure mieux. Chaque minute pleine porte en elle-mme la ngation...”
“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”
“What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.”
“The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cross work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight a...”
“Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.”
“Because of the earths roundness, Genghis Khan, in the fever of possession and destruction, hastened his own overthrow by invading lands that he had already razed and conquered. Not only is it impos...”
“Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.”
“The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a lo...”
“Past and future monopolize the poets sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the ...”
“It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!”
“A word and everything is saved.A word and all is lost.”
