To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the

Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.