To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.

Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves to whom they can tell their dreams and show what would be verses if they wrote them. I'm with those poor slobs who have no books to show, who have no literature beside their own soul, and who are suffocating to death due to the fact that they exist without having taken that mysterious, transcendental exam that makes one eligible to live.

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.