It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.

French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.