At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.

Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

One reads alone, even in another's presence.