You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith