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With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude,

If there is one thing I detest, it's when people transform their powerlessness or alienation into a creed.

Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.

I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -

The French are often, when it comes to wine, so formal that they border on the ridiculous.

True novelty is that which does not grow old, despite the passage of time.

I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world. - Paloma

I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

True faith, it is a well-known fact, has little regard for chapels, but does believe in the communion of mysteries.

If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.

In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.

It is always reassuring to be disabused of one's own paranoia.

They have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.

What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Day after day, we pace up and down our life the way we pace up and down a passageway.

A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.

Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

There are only two moments when everything is possible in this life," said Petrus, "when one drinks, and when one makes up stories.

I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.

That is the way a summer rain can take hold in you- like a new heart, beating in time with another's.

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life ... to beauty all is forgiven.

The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.

Art is life playing to other rhythms."
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects.

Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and breath,

I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.

Every day I tell myself that my sister cannot possibly sink any further into the slough of disgrace and, every day, I am amazed to see that she does.

Behold the man I also know how to be.

God appeases our animal fears and the unbearable prospect that someday all our pleasures will cease.

Important decisions are made by those who are invisible, by the humble people.

What do these onlookers see as they bend over my broken body? I do not know. But inside me, the sun.

One must concede to others what one tolerates in oneself.

When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.

...love musn't be a means, it must be an end.

I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.

But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses

Eternity: for all its invisibility, we gaze at it.

Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things ...

How distressing to stumble on a dominant social habitus, just when one was convinced of one's own uniqueness in the matter!

Boredom was born on a day of uniformity.

I am an intellectual (who makes fun of other intellectuals).

Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

If you want to heal
Heal others
And smile or weep
At this very happy reversal of fate

Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?

Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.

When we disappear, it is the others who die for us

since destiny always rings three times...

I had a brief glimpse of a frail, mature man carrying a ravaged child in his arms...

What is the purpose of intelligence if it is not to serve others?

Art is emotion without desire.

In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten.

For in order for consciousness to be aroused, it must have a name. However,

Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern
thinker.

I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.

Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

Shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.

Birch trees
Teach me that I am nothing
And that I am deserving of life

I don't give a damn about where I happen to be, provided nothing stops me from going into my mind.

I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.

I understood that I was suffering because I couldn't make anyone else around me feel better.

If you change the way you crunch into something, it is like trying something new.

I suddenly felt my spirit expand, for I was capable of grasping the utter beauty of the trees.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

Tea and mangas instead of coffee and newspapers: something elegant and enchanting, instead of adult power struggles and their sad aggressiveness.

Object lesson: in the world, everything is compensation. When you can't go fast, you push harder

When you don't know how to build the present, you tell

I don't think it has ever occurred to her that a text is written above all to be read and to arouse emotions in the reader.

We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

What do you drink
What do you read
At breakfast
And I know who
You are

Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.

It really takes an effort to appear stupider than you are.

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.

Grammar A stratum of consciousness Leading to beauty

If you can pretend to ignore the fact that you've got a right hand, what else can you pretend to ignore? Can you have a negative heart, a hollow soul?

And I wonder how well I myself can see.

Papa is just a kid who's playing the dead serious grown-up.

Because art is life, playing to other rhythms.

Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.