Julien Torma Quotes

Nature is only another chimera.

Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

The beautiful must be incongruous.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

The object is that which is objected against me.

A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.

When the house is blown up, there’s nothing to shut or open.

It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.

For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.

True poetry is embarrassing.