Jos Quotes

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

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Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, caf?s full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

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The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

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The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

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Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

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There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

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A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

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Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

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