I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?
There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
We are all special cases.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.
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.
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
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.
…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.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
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.
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.
One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.
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.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.
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.
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
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