Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure...on the one hand, we have to make the most of our lives; on the other, we… — 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 Image
Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction. — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing. — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Love has triumphed over marriage but now it is destroying it from inside” — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
