If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

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 life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

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!