580 quotes found
“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest w...”
“Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like eve...”
“I have realized that we all have plague, and I have lost my peace. And today I am still trying to find it; still trying to understand all those others and not to be the enemy of anyone. I only know...”
“Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting untouchedjust as a determination not to know serves the maker more than all the resources...”
“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barel...”
“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
“I would like to be able to breathe to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.”
“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
“I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.”
“ I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought t...”
“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai dcouvert en moi un invincible t.”
“The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
“It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open ...”
“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
