The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.