What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.
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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
A man attaches himself to woman – not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one.