There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Andre Breton
There is another world and it is in this one.
Paul Éluard
"Spring and All" from Spring and All (1923)
William Carlos Williams
I was in hospital once. There was a man in another ward, dying of throat cancer. In the silence, I could hear his screams continually. That's the only kind of form my work has.
Samuel Beckett
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.
Paul Auster
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Peter Handke
Life is the sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
Georges Bataille
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
Maurice Blanchot
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.