Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
From Albert Camus
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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