Politics of the Very Worst, New York: Semiotext(e), 1999, p. 89
“When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.”
Source: Earth House Hold
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A Universal History of Iniquity, preface to the 1954 edition; tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Context: I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. [... ] The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.

“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.”
"The Year it Came Apart" http://books.google.com/books?id=MekCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30, New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1 (30 December 1974 – 6 January 1975), p. 30

“Our eternity is not real; it resembles us; it is our own invention; its scent is vanity.”
“Eternity and Eternity,” p. 32
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”

“One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.”
Source: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 6 : Where the Tree Falls

“War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.”
Who Speaks for Man? (1953), p. 318.