132 quotes found
“By day I am nothing, by night I am I.”
“Everything is interconnected. My readings of classical authors, who never speaks of sunsets, have made many sunsets intelligible to me, in all their colors. There is a relationship between syntacti...”
“The human soul is an abyss”
“I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life, the greate...”
“No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one's self”
“To be understood is to prostitute oneself”
“Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his consciousness. By virtue of his gaze, he has all hills, and by virtue of his position, all valleys....”
“To pretend is to know oneself.”
“Perhaps he still hopes. If theres any justice in the Gods injustice, then may they let us keep our dreams, even when theyre impossible, and may our dreams be happy, even when theyre trivial....Ever...”
“And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, just one thought fills my soul: that I profoundly wish to die, to cease, to see no more light shinin...”
“To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.”
“I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: its not me.”
“Im curious about everyone, hungry for everything, greedy for all ideas. My awareness that not everything can be seen, not everything read and not everything thought torments me like the loss of ......”
“Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast,Postponed corpse that begets?”
“All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to do what everyone else does.”
“Yes its me, I myself, what I turned out to be, () Im the one here in myself, its me. () Whatever I was, whatever I wasntits all in what I am. Whatever I wanted, whatever I didnt wantall of this has...”
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive...”
“Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to make an effort or carry out an intention, creation for me has always meant dreaming, wanting or des...”
“I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought as my own version of the straight line, seeing it in my mind as the ideal straight line the longest distance between two...”
“I'm almost convinced that I'm never awake. I'm not sure if I'm not in fact dreaming when I live, and living when I dream, or if dreaming and living are for me intersected, intermingled things that ...”
