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The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment never measures up to what we ima...more

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In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality fro...more

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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. ...more

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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

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I'll be living quietly in a house somewhere in the suburbs, enjoying a peaceful existence not writing the book I'm not writing now and, so as to conti...more

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I am nothing.I'll never be anything.I couldn't want to be something.Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

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The only thing I’ve loved is nothing at all. The only thing I’ve desired is what I couldn’t even imagine. All I asked of life is that it go on by with...more

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The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.

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No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one's self

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Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despairOf not being able to expressWith a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,The bleeding of my heart.

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Yes it’s me, I myself, what I turned out to be, (…) I’m the one here in myself, it’s me. (…) Whatever I was, whatever I wasn’t—it’s all in what I am. ...more

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Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone!To be remiss is to be positively out in the country!What a refuge it is to be completely unreli...more

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Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - ...more

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To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in...more

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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!