All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
Love is the cheapest of religions.
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
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