It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

The work of memory collapses time.

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.