Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.
The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is...
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for...
I kissed her and forgot death.
Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought, but I was and am fatefully impelled to have...
I know by my own experience how, from a stranger met by chance, there may come an irresistible appeal which overturns the habitual perspectives just as a gust of wind might tumble down the panels of a...
For me, then, nobility is synonymous with a life of effort, ever set on excelling oneself, in passing beyond what one is to what one sets up as a duty and an obligation. In this way the noble life sta...
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking.
To seek out the upright. No fall butpreceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness,counting them against his return. Eyes closed, arms oaring. Upright to what?Something n...
Positive disintegration is the sublimation of suffering
Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that, Himiko said, elaborating her friend's terrific prophecy; You won't get a divorce Bird....
If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human beings became as predictable as cogs in a machine, then man, driven by this need to know and assert...
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
The Patrician took a sip of his beer. I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the ban...
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
I am naked and a beggar and an atom in the vortex of humanity.
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?
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