I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.

I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

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