I tell you: one must have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in you.

Live to the point of tears.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

"A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and best of a life are devoted to earning that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end."

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...