Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.