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Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)
“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
“The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.”
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 117
“Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”
Source: Conversations with Don Delillo
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution
"Faiths of Meditation; Contemplation of the divine" as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 417
Context: Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.
“The great consolation of righteousness is never having to worry whether you’re a bore.”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
