The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels.
She was waiting, but she didn’t know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.
He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe.
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man’s heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
I’ve never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
