Shame is not founding a fault that we would have committed, but the humiliation that we feel to be what we are without having chosen it, and the unbearable feeling that this humiliation is visible...

When one of them declares, with arrogance and pride, his affiliation with the young generation, we know very well what he means: he means that it will be alive when others fall in a way that raises...

Our own image is the biggest puzzle for us.

The situation was changed, and the journalists understood that asking questions is not only a way to work the rhorjage maker who is pursuing a realization of what is holding his thinker in his hand,...

Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude.

The reign of imagology begins where history ends

Agnes subtracts from her self everything that is exterior and borrowed, in order to come closer to her sheer essence {even with the risk that zero lurks at the bottom of the subtraction}. Laura's...

Unity: A fresh absence of looks. One day, her colleagues fell ill and worked alone in the office for two weeks. She noticed amazed at the evening that she could hardly feel tired. This made her...

The trap of hatred is that it makes us very closely replace with our opponent. This is the obscenity of war: the intimacy of the blood, which is shed on both sides, and the lustful proximity of two...

Homo sentimentalis {...} a man who has raised feelings to a category of value. As soon as feelings are seen as value, everyone wants to feel; and because we all like to pride ourselves on our values,...

!Do you realise what is the eternal precondition of tragedy? The existence of ideals which are considered more valuable than human life. {...} Thy drive you to your death because presumably there is...

is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive.

When someone is young, he is not capable of conceiving of time as a circle, but thinks of it as a road leading forward to ever-new horizons; he does not yet sense that his life contains just a single...

All of us, in some part of ourselves, live behind time. Perhaps we are only aware of our life in exceptional moments, and that we are mostly people without age.

Imagine that you lived in a world with no mirrors, you would dream of your face, you would have imagined it as a kind of external reflection of what is inside you.

And it isn't enough for us to identify with our selves, it is necessary to do so passionately, to the point of life and death. Because only in this way can we regard ourselves not merely as a variant...

He took her in his arms and lifted her up. She looked at him and he noticed only now that her eyes were full of tears. He pressed her to him. She understood that he loved her and this suddenly filled...

The emotion arises inside us in the negligence of us, and it is often against our will. Once we deliberately feel emotion, emotion is no longer emotion, but rather turns into emotion, and a review of...

If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...

Imagine that you lived in a world where there are no mirrors. You've dreamed of your face, you would imagine it as a kind of external reflection of what is inside you. After that, assume that they put...

The name of our family also, it is divided by coincidence, without knowing when it appeared in the world, nor how it was picked up by one of the anonymous grandparents. We do not understand this name...

I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy...

But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists...

She blushed. It is a beautiful thing when a woman blushes; at that instant her body no longer belongs to her; she doesn't control it; she is at its mercy; oh, can there be anything more beautiful than...

We are all in some part of ourselves living behind time, perhaps we are not aware of our life except in exceptional moments, and that we are mostly people without ages

Yes, the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever actually been conceived or born. In the algebra of love a child is the symbol of the magical sum of two...

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

The world loses its transparency little by little, becoming a kinetic and disobedience to understanding, he loves in the unknown, while the person who betrayed the world, inside himself, escapes to...

The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense...

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.