Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
Basis of society: anonymous sweat.
The universal view melts things into a blur.
Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.