A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.

Perfection is the enemy of the good.

Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars.