Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.