The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.
Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.