“Be courageous when the mind deceives youBe courageousIn the final account only this is important”

“forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums”

“Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability.”

“when the Lord built the worldhe furrowed his browcalculated calculated calculatedthat is why the world is perfectand uninhabitableinstead the world of the painteris goodand full of mistakesthe eye wandersfrom one color to anotherone fruit to anotherthe eye mumblesthe eye smilesremembersthe eye says it is bearableonly if one couldenter insidethere where the painter waswithout wingsin slippers that fall offwithout Virgilwith a cat in the pocketa benevolent fantasyand a handthat unknowingly corrects the world”

“So is blurred so is blurred in me what white-haired gentleman separated once and for all and said this is the subject this is the object we fall asleep with one hand under our head and with the other in a mound of planets our feet abandon us and taste the earth with their tiny roots which next morning we tear out painfully”

“We fall asleep on words / we wake among words”

“A craftsman must probe to the very bottom of cruelty.”