Life should be lived to the point of tears
There is no love of life without despair of life.
I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.
Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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