It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!
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They made me take cod liver oil: that is the height of luxury: a medicine to make you hungry while the others, in the street, would have sold themselves for a beefsteak. I saw them passing my window with their signs: "Give me bread".
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You have stolen my face from me: you know it and I no longer do.
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And we feel that the hero has lived all the details of this night like annunciations, promises, or even that he lived only those that were promises, blind and deaf to all that did not herald adventure. We forget that the future was not yet there; the man was walking in the night without forethought, a night which offered him a choice of dull rich prizes, and he did not make his choice.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Ha! To forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.
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There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Consciousness is prior to nothingness and "is derived" from being.
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Suppose that I wish to deserve the title of "robber of remorse" and that I place in myself all [the townspeople's] repentence?
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