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.
You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
A loveless world is a dead world.
If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
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.
One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.
The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.
When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
When the body is sad, the heart languishes.
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Liberty is the right not to lie.
All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.
Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.
Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.
When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.
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.
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