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Learning is the art of ignoring.
Beauty always has something remote.
In eternity everything is just beginning.
Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
A child. . . opens and closes like a blossom.
People's fates are simplified by their names.
I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.
There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.
One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.