"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."

"A nose that can see is worth two that sniff."

"Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair."

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

"A civil servant doesn't make jokes."

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

"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."

"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 that directs the social condition, not vice versa."

"Living is abnormal."

"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."

"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."

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."

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