A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order not to be strangled to death by inherited conceptions which preclude new births.... The sketch has direction, but no ending; the sketch as reflection of a view of life that is no longer conclusive, or is not yet conclusive.

Why don't we follow our yearning?

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?