To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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...
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains? Yes, I said.
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Now I can broach the notion of suicide. It has already been felt what solution might be given. At this point the problem is reversed. It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life ha...
She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.
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 nihili...
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.
I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
Our purpose is to find out whether innocence, the moment it becomes involved in an action, can avoid committing murder.