Micko

“The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”

“The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.”

“To construct oneself, to know oneself—are these two distinct acts or not?”

“To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.”

“Sometime I think; and sometime I am.”

“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.”

“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”

“to live means to lack something at every moment”

“War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.”

“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”

“God created man, and finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a female companion so that he might feel his solitude more acutely.”

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”

“Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised”

“Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”

“We think too much and feel too little.”

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”

“Paint what you like and die happy”

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”