The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

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.

Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.