“Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.”
"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."
“Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.”
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
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Art is the proper task of life."
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
“Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.”
"...-Ce inseamna "a imblanzi"?-E un lucru de mult dat uitarii,zise vulpea. Inseamna "a-ti crea legaturi"...-A-ti crea legaturi?-Desigur,zise vulpea. Tu nu esti deocamdata pentru mine decat un baietas, aidoma cu o suta de mii de alti baietasi. Iar eu nu am nevoie de tine. Si nici tu n-ai nevoie de mine. Eu sunt pentru tine decat o vulpe, aidoma cu o suta de mii de alte vulpi. Dar daca tu ma imblanzesti, vom avea nevoie unul de altul. Tu ve fi, pentru mine, fara seaman in lume. Eu voi fi pentru tine, fara seaman in lume..."
"Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right. "
"Vidul este singurul miracol al lumii."
"Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other."
"What is important is to spread confusion, not to eliminate it."
"I'm a permanent state of intellectual erection."
"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."
"E ciudat cat de incapabil sunt, uneori, sa prevad evenimentele esentiale, sa ghicesc oamenii care schimba mai tarziu firul vietii mele.”
“I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.”
"You'll see, after I'm dead I'll come back and pinch your feet."
"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."
"Ce s-a intamplat cu mine? Toata durerea omeneasca, failibila, inlaturata, toata furia, sentimentele omenesti-toate resentimentele- toate acestea au pierit din mine, s-au dizolvat. Ascensiunea-cumplita separare de viata umana-o culme! Trupul meu atat de usor..Dupa durere, aceasta desprindere divina, aceasta transcendenta. Ma ingrozeste. Toate legaturile se rup, toate legaturile cu pamantul, toata ura, toate resentimentele, realitatea.Ascensiune vertiginioasa."
"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."
“I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself”
"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."
"Cel mai simplu act suprarealist consta in a cobori in strada cu revolverul in mana si a trage la intamplare, cat de mult posibil, in multime. Cine n-a simtit macar o data nevoia de a o termina astfel cu sistemul de degradare si de cretinizare in vigoare, isi are un loc bine stabilit in aceasta multime, in bataia pustii."
"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."
"Am incercat sa ma contrazic pe mine insumi, pentru a evita conformismul propriului meu gust."
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
“The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.”
"If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state. "
"Orice act de creatie e mai intai un act de distrugere."
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.”
"For me, singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth."
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."
“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
"Cine nu ar prefera sa fie mai prost de fericire decat mai destept din nefericire?"
"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."
"Care este sensul vietii, Leonard? El rade, spune ca raspunsul e simplu, fiule, e exact acela care vrei tu sa fie."
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
"Arta e o minciuna care ne permite sa vedem adevarul."
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
“Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . .The other eight are unimportant”
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."
“It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.”
“We live at the edge of the miraculous.”
Game over.
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