Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that's why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that's what I am experiencing right now.
Art must invent new beauty, not play with what has already been made, religion must invent God and never rest.
Freedom, we find out, is not an inconsequential chucking of one’s weight about, it is the disciplined overcoming of self. Humility is not a peculiar habit of self-effacement, rather like having an ina...
He had lived a chaste life really. It was his accusers and not his crimes which troubled him.
He simply would not have married anybody whom he loved in that rather simple mediocre sort of way.
In a world without a redeemer only clarity was the answer to guilt. He would make it all clear to himself, shirking nothing, and then he would decide.
It was not simply that I frenziedly desired what I could not have. That was but a blunt and unrefined kind of suffering. I was condemned to be with her even in her very rejection of me. And how long a...
Kant abolished God and made man God in His stead. We are still living in the age of the Kantian man, or Kantian man-god. Kant's conclusive exposure of the so-called proofs of the existence of God, his...
Religion is having an intense attitude and no time off... religion is about those awful deep things.
What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
What is more tormenting than a meeting after a long time, when all the words fall to the ground like dead things, and the spirit that should animate them floats disembodied in the air? We both felt it...
When I'm up to something I find it very hard to realize that I probably look no different from the way I look on other occasions.
You’ve got such nice hair, it seems a pity to dye it blue.
He felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but who...
And all this time I was keeping my eyes open, or trying to, only they kept closing, because I wanted to go on watching the stars, where the most extraordinary things were happening. A bright satellite...
Disapproving of things is all right. But you mustn't disapprove of people. It cuts you off.
There are things which are appalling to young people because young people think life should be happy and free. But life is never really happy and free in any beautiful sense. Happiness is a weak and p...
—Comprendo. —Añadí—: Tú me acusaste en una ocasión de decir tonterías. Si yo soy un privilegiado sólo por haberte visto abrazando a tu hermano…Seguía callada, sonriendo otra vez. Traté de no devolverl...
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