To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.
The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.
To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26)
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.
have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it
Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.
It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.
Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.
There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.
Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.
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