With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway! ... You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.

One is always half mad when one is shy of people.

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.