Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
tso-love
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
experience memory time
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
opinions
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
character life trouble worth
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
chaos philosophy
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
thepublic
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
work
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
art life theend truth wisdom
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
life wisdom
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
boredom dreams experience
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.
aesthetics art poltics propaganda war