Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

We have not the time to take our time.

A civil servant doesn’t make jokes.

Living is abnormal.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition...

I’ve always been suspicious of collective truths.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.