To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego

I never meant to be but a dreamer.

Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.