I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
We are all special cases.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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.
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
Art does not tolerate reason.
One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.
Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.
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.
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
…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.
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.
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