I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
She was waiting, but she didn’t know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one’s work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn’t mine anymore, but one in which I’d found the simplest and most lasting joys.
If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.