When the house is blown up, there’s nothing to shut or open.
Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.
There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.
The object is that which is objected against me.
My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.
The beautiful must be incongruous.
A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.
Thought involves a little charlatanism.
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.
Nature is only another chimera.
The present is always the best, even when its rough.
Hunger justifies the middle classes.
The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.