Posted by: Rex Akragas
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Only art can interrupt the monotony of the being.
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Only art can interrupt the monotony of the being.
Life is a rocky road, rocks on which you trip, you fall, you hurt yourself.
Rocks against which you must protect yourself with iron shoes. But no even this is enough because while you protect your feet there's always someone who pick up a rock to hit you on the head with.
To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity.
Life is but a bad quater of an hour, made up of delightful moments.
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
I love what tenaciousness is left in my eyes, in my abandoned rooms where lives the moon, and my spiders, and the destructions that are dear to me, I love my being lost, my imperfect substance.
We mustn't be subjected to anything, not even to good. A so-called good, to which you succumb, loses the ethycal character. It doesn't become bad in itself, but by being dominated it can have some bad consequences. Every shape of intoxication is is unhealthy, it makes no difference if alcohol or morphine or idealism.
We mustn't consider good and evil as two opposites.
Make sure everyone that comes your way leaves feeling better and happier.