D. Simone Quotes
The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.
It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.
Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.
Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.
If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.
The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.
I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.
We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.
Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.
Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.
Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.
Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive
We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.
We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.
Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.
Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.
You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion
Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa.""What does it mean?""You're beautiful.
I give her the only honest and true answer I have."You're where I want to be.
My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.My heart... not so much.
Hey, Carlos, " the Professor says when he walks in. "How was REACH?""It sucked.""Can you be more specific?" my guardian asks."It really sucked, " I elaborate, sarcasm dripping from every word.
Dont ruin my balls!" She laughs as the words leave her mouth.Better yours than mine, chica." I toss the dough balls at her, one by one, until I've got none left.
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering, ” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.
You’re dangerous, ” he says.“Why?”“Because you make me believe in the impossible
When they’re together, the world could fall apart around them and they’d never notice or care as long as they have each other.
I was too much of an extremist to be able to live under the eye of God and at the same time say both yes and no to life
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.
If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I found his nihilism contagious.
When they’re together, the world could fall apart around them and they’d never notice or care as long as they have each
Dios mio, I think my brother lost his balls somewhere between here and Mexico. Or maybe Brittany has them zipped inside that fancy purse (of hers).
But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.
I’ve done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I’ve been swindled all the same because it’s never anything more.