Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels Emptiness. Free from the futile strivings and the cares which dim existence to a realm of mist, happy is he who wings an upward way on mighty pinions to the fields of light; whose thoughts like larks spontaneously rise into the morning sky; whose flight, unchecked, outreaches life and readily comprehends the language of flowers and of all mute things.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.