A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.