Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a m...aster, God being out of style.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it--just as the world reproduces itself i...n the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts t...o answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest--whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories--comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across the hundreds of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you i...n your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what... ultimate exile?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent s...treaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithme...tically, the sufferings of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »