105 quotes
He left me at my hotel at 3:00 AM murmuring: "You're marvelous."
Diary entries (1914)
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.
Children of the Albatross (1947)
Everything but happiness is neurosis.
Diary entries (1914)
I had always believed in Andre Breton's freedom, to write as one thinks, in the order and disorder in which one feels in thinks, to follow sensations and absurd correlations of events and images, to trust to the new realms they lead one into. "The cult of the marvelous."
Diary entries (1914)
To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
Diary entries (1914)
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
French Writers of the Past (2000)
Passivity, like the passivity of India induced by religion, is destructive both to human life and to art.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
The Last Word : A Treasury of Women's Quotes (1992)
For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds...
Diary entries (1914)
I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.
Diary entries (1914)
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
He says I am breeding a little giant. I see him looking at my more aggressive breasts.
The dream, scrutinized by scientists in various experiments, has been found to be an absolute necessity to man.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
By shutting out the outside world, drugs place one not only in confrontation with the dreaming self, but also ones nightmares.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
Diary entries (1914)
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
Diary entries (1914)
I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
Diary entries (1914)
He was insane with anger. Or is all insanity anger?
Diary entries (1914)
The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.
The Novel of the Future (1969)