• Art and Culture

  For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

  3.6 · 7 votes · 161 reads

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• Feelings

  Happiness is the longing for repetition.

  3.9 · 54 votes · 59 reads

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• Virtues

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

  3.2 · 23 votes · 159 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

  4.5 · 52 votes · 137 reads

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• Nature

  Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all o

  4.1 · 12 votes · 62 reads

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• Virtues

  Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

  5.0 · 18 votes · 88 reads

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• Virtues

  Optimism is the opium of the people.

  3.4 · 21 votes · 8 reads

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• Time

  People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only rea

  4.5 · 64 votes · 172 reads

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• Various

  Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

  4.3 · 46 votes · 74 reads

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• Feelings

  The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

  4.3 · 21 votes · 67 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

  4.8 · 49 votes · 156 reads

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• Society

  The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left

  3.4 · 50 votes · 47 reads

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• Feelings

  There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

  4.3 · 13 votes · 56 reads

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• Virtues

  True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

  3.0 · 49 votes · 99 reads

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• Various

  We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

  3.6 · 11 votes · 116 reads

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• Nature

  We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an out

  5.0 · 13 votes · 98 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

  4.7 · 55 votes · 137 reads

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• Nature

  Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image of woman. The more technical and mechanical, cold and metallic it becomes, the more it will need the kind of warmth that only t

  3.5 · 55 votes · 50 reads

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