The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general.