Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.
When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.
How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.
Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.
If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.
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.
But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.
A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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