One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.
Basis of society: anonymous sweat.
If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?
There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.
Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.
For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
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