You can only predict things after they have happened.
The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.
We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.
It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.
People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?
Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.
When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out.
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