“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
― Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
― Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“As soon as high consciousness is reached, the enjoyment of existence is entwined with pain, frustration, loss, tragedy. Amid the passing of so much beauty, so much heroism, so much daring, Peace is then the intuition of permanence. It keeps vivid the sensitiveness to the tragedy; and it sees the fineness beyond the faded level of surrounding fact. Each tragedy is the disclosure of an ideal: What might have been, and was not; What can be. The tragedy was not in vain.”
― Adventures of Ideas
― Adventures of Ideas
“At the age of eight, I still dreamed of being granted plant status.”
― Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
― Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
“The only responsible course is to deny oneself the ideological misuse of one’s own existence, and for the rest to conduct oneself in private as modestly, unobtrusively and unpretentiously as is required, no longer by good upbringing, but by the shame of still having air to breathe, in hell.”
― Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
― Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
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