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My greatest fear: repetition.
There is no art without Eros.
I have no words for my reality.
Why don't we follow our yearning?
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
The dignity of man is in free choice.
Why do dying people never shed tears?
Every uniform corrupts one's character.
I know that I'm the happiest of lovers.
Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
I live, like every real man, in my work.
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
We asked for workers. We got people instead.
The older you get the simpler you want to make it.
You can put anything into words, except your own life.
Cause and effect are never divided between two people.
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.
All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.
Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.
If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.
I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.
You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.
In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!
The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.
I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.
A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.
The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.
It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.
Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.