The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.
We are all special cases.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.
Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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