“What did we want? We want the world smaller and bigger and just the same but advancing. We don’t know what we want.”
You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)
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“We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.”
On prouve tout ce qu'on veut, et la vraie difficulté est de savoir ce qu'on veut prouver.
Système des Beaux-Arts (1920), as quoted in The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less) by John M. Shanahan, p. 34
Variant translation: We prove anything we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
Source: The Goldfinch

“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.”
“Malraux and the Statues at Bamberg”, p. 191
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)

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