Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. |
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow." |
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. |
Love is the cheapest of religions. |
No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. |
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. |
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. |
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. |
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness |
One must look for one thing only, to find many |
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better. |
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better. |
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. |
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest /thought, action /is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go. |
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next. |