What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking things.
The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.
The act of dreaming, like a draught of fresh air in an abandoned house, situates the furniture of the mind in a new ambiance.
It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how, in what way, because of what concatenation of events or c...
I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the ele...
Boris has just given me a summary of his views. He is a weather prophet. The weather will continue bad, he says. There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication o...
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.
لكي يعرف الإنسان السلام يجب أن يجرب الصراع، عليه أن يمر بالمرحلة البطولية قبل أن يتمكن من التصرف كحكيم، يجب أن يصبح ضحية انفعالاته قبل أن يتمكن من التعالي عليها
Yes, he knows how to build a fire, but I know how to inflame a cunt.
Over and over again I have said that there is no way out of the present impasse. If we were wide awake we would be instantly struck by the horrors which surround us ... We would drop our tools, quit o...
One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless.
If at eighty you're not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your health, if you still enjoy a good walk, a good meal (with all the trimmings), if you can sleep without first taking a pill, if birds a...
I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck anymore what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enou...
I was like Robinson Crusoe on the island of Tobago. For hours at a stretch I would lie in the sun doing nothing, thinking of nothing. To keep the mind empty is a feat, a very healthful feat too. To be...
I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the bag. I love the kidney with it’s painful gall-stones,...
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.