“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
― Primary Colors
― Primary Colors
“Of what are you thinking now?" she asked.
"I am thinking of myself."
"That's just what I am doing."
"Are you also thinking of yourself?"
"No, of yourself—of you, Mogens.”
― Mogens and Other Stories
"I am thinking of myself."
"That's just what I am doing."
"Are you also thinking of yourself?"
"No, of yourself—of you, Mogens.”
― Mogens and Other Stories
“I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.”
― Masquerade and Other Stories
― Masquerade and Other Stories
“It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”
― Breath
― Breath
“If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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