"Even this disability from which I suffer I have assumed by the very fact that I live; I surpass it toward my own projects, I make of it the necessary obstacle for my being and I cannot be crippled without choosing myself as crippled. This means that I choose the way I constitute my disability (as 'unbearable', 'humiliating, 'to be hidden', 'to be revealed to all')." |
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. |
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. |
Acting is happy agony. |
Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough |
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. |
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. |
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. |
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. |
Everything has been figured out, except how to live |
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. |
Existence precedes and rules essence. |
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. |
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. |
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. |