“Thus it takes the imminence of an infinite calamity to redeem the human adventure. On this level our age testifies to a narcissism of malediction that rips it out of its insignificance and reaffirms its centrality: by designating itself as… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
“Totusi, destul de iute simplicitatea actului sexual m-a plictisit; in cele mai rele excese percepeam monotonie si patos mult. Oricat de puternica era desfatarea,… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share
Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction. — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share
Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share
The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life;… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share
“The obsession with security at any price petrifies us, and we increase our fear by trying to eliminate risk. That is what is ridiculous… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share
Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing. — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share
You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will not be… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share
“Love has triumphed over marriage but now it is destroying it from inside” — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share
You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends. — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share
The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share
“The 'destiny that eyes us from the future' makes us neglect our duties to those close to us. Third-Worldism stressed the crimes of colonialism… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share
You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves. — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share
“In the eighteenth century, historians tell us, 'valentinage,' from which Valentine's Day was derived, allowed wives in northern France to make love, on a… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share
