I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that, love, beauty, everything else goes out the window. All they have left is cold disdain; that's what marriages live on nowadays. Sometimes I see women who ought to be happy, with whom I could have found companionship, already swallowed up by brutes with as much feeling as an old log.

I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

True life is elsewhere

Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).