Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.
The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.
Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.
A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.
Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.
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