Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.