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- Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or…
- Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than…
- We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't…
- There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel…
- The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
- Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.
- In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
- Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was an…
- Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great…
- Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.
- All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.
- Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
- True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
- Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.…
- No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
- All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
- A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you…
- He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking…
- Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it…
- Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz. "Well,…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes