Having money is a way of being free of money.
Liberty is the right not to lie.
I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.
All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.
Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.
There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.
...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
When the body is sad, the heart languishes.
It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.
Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.
Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss
Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.
A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.
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