There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
We are all special cases.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.
One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.
The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.
Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.
…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.
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