A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. |
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. |
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. |
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do. |
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? |
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. |
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations. |
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes. |
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. |
Most religions do not make men better, only warier |
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it. |
One should use praise to recognize what one is not. |
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation. |
People's fates are simplified by their names. |
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. |