You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don't look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don't let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

The future is a monotonous instrument

Taste is tiring like good company.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.