Art is science made flesh.

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

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

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