The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
I was very shy as a girl. Absurdly shy, even. Maybe because I was an only child. And I think that's why I'm so happy to have two kids now.
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they're very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state that refuses to compromise, a quorum of angry people, and access to weapons.
My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
