There exist but three respectable beings: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill and to create. Other men are taxable and exploitable, made for the stable, that is to say, to exercise so called professions.
Original text (French)
Original text (French)
I think there can be few examples of a life as dilapidated as mine.
This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.
We have psychologized like the insane, who aggravate their madness in struggling to understand it.
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