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There is no forgiveness in nature.
Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.
The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.
To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.
We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.
Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.
Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.
We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously
to love each other, hate each other
but then
it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.
It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.
When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.
Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
