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“Full freedom will come only when it makes no difference whether to live or not to live. That’s the goal for everyone.”
― Demons
― Demons
“The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.”
― America
― America
“This is how men ought to be, in order to be happy and to make others happy; but you have to reckon on their not being like that”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“poetry utters universal truths, history particular statements”
― Poetics
― Poetics
“The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.”
― Paris Spleen
― Paris Spleen
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