At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. |
At each of those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods, he is superior to his fate, ... He is stronger than his rock. |
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd. |
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower |
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower |
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. |
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. |
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? |
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. |
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. |
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. |
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world. |
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. |
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. |
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. |