“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist.
To make living itself an art, that is the goal.”
― Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
To make living itself an art, that is the goal.”
― Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
“The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth.”
― Tropic of Capricorn
― Tropic of Capricorn
“Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my thoughts, have me for your companion, confidant, and information bureau? What do you take me for? Am I an entertainer on salary, required every evening to play an intellectual farce under your stupid noses? Am I a slave, bought and paid for, to crawl on my belly in front of you idlers and lay at your feet all that I do and all that I know?”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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