I had spent my timecounterfeiting eternity.
He yawned; he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various tried and proved rules of conduct had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, sm...
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
گوتز: تۆ جوانی و جوانی دیاری شەیتانە.هیلدا: دڵنیای؟گوتز: من ئیتر لە هیچ شتێک دڵنیا نیم. ئەگەر حەز و هەوەسەکانم ڕازی بکەم، تووشی گوناح دەبم بەڵام خۆم لە چنگیان دەرباز دەکەم؛ ئەگەر نەمهەوێت ڕازییان بکەم...
You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others...
Nothing can interrupt it yet all can break it.
Le secret douloureux des Dieux et des rois: c'est que les hommes sont libres. Ils sont libres Egisthe. Tu le sais, et ils ne le savent pas.
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through p...
Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you th...
What if something were to happen? What if something suddenly started throbbing? Then they would notice it was there and they'd think their hearts were going to burst. Then what good would their dykes,...