I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.

Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?