“The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.”
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?