There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

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

Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.