Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
There was a time when time did not yet exist.