The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Life should be lived to the point of tears
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
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.'
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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.
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.
...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
Having money is a way of being free of money.
We have art in order not to die of life.
A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
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