Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.
I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity -the more energetically meaning is sought.
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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