Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.