It is an abstract change without object. Am I the one who has changed? (...) I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of smal...
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.
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
من تقوا ندارم، شاید فرزندان ما باتقوا شوند، بهشرط آنکه ما آنقدر خون جاری کنیم تا حق داشتن فضیلت را به آنها بدهیم.
The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the fence, a miserly, uncertain light falls, like the look you giv...
Now I knew: things are entirely what they appear to be—and behind them . . . there is nothing. This
Let us see what words can do. Will you understand me, for a start, if I tell you that I have never known what I am? My vices, my virtues, are under my nose, but I can’t see them, nor stand far enough...
It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then t...
I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I do...
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...
Celebrity, for me, equal hatred
After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.
Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
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...