Index Cards

Genet disdained bourgeois pretension, as did Walser, who lived an almost Gandhian simplicity.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.”

Now that photo is all over the internet, completely out of my control.

“We are all so overwhelmed by culture that it is a relief to see something which is done directly, without any intention of being good or bad, done only because one wants to do it.”

“I take H [hashish] in order to be free. But in order to take H I must already be free.”

he can only enjoy the feeling because he has worked very hard for it.

she was a believer in wholesomeness and common sense in an age of superstition and quackery.

“By transferring a fact into words and characters you create other facts that can never recreate the original one.”

“The dullest, most inept and inconsequential snapshot, when isolated, framed (on a wall or by the margins of a book), and paid attention to, takes on all the uncanny significance, fascination, and beauty of R. Mutt’s fountain