We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.
The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
We have not the time to take our time.
To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.
A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.
People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?
Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.
When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out.
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