Sabina could not understand why the dead would want to have imitation palaces built over them. The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone.
If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross.
The goals we pursue are always veiled.
Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of betrayal.
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
An actor is someone who in early childhood consents to exhibit himself for the rest of his life to an anonymous public.
Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake.
One could betray one's parents, husband, country, love, but when parents husband, country, and love were gone-what was left to betray?
We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There's been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
In my unbeliever's dictionary, only one word is sacred: 'friendship.'
The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.
To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.
People usually escape from their troubles into the future; they draw an imaginary line across the path of time, a line beyond which their current troubles will cease to exist.
There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.
If we have only one life to live,we might as well not have lived at all.
He had complete control over her sleep: she dozed off at the second he chose.