A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichTs.