To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!

I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.