“I is another.”
“Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.”
“Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.”
“When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.”
“I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.”
“What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.”
“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
“One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.”
“The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.”
“And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!”
“I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.”
“But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.”
“I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.”
“For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.”