A True Poet Does Not Bother To

There Is Always A Period When A Man With A Beard Shaves It Off. This Period Does Not Last. He Returns Headlong To His Beard.

Not Only Should You Not Accept A Prize. You Should Not Try To Deserve One Either.

All Spiritual Journeys Are Martyrdoms

If An Addict Who Has Been Completely Cured Starts Smoking Again He No Longer Experiences The Discomfort Of His First Addiction. There Exists, Therefore, Outside Alkaloids And Habit, A Sense For Opium, An Intangible Habit Which Lives On, Despite The Recasting Of The Organism. The Dead Drug Leaves A Ghost Behind. At Certain Hours It Haunts The House.

The Extreme Limit Of Wisdom, That's What The Public Calls Madness.