To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

La literatura es la manera más agradable de ignorar la vida.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.