The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
Life should be lived to the point of tears
Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
Without freedom there is no art.
When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.
There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.
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