Sublime

I’m with these poor slobs who have no books to show, who have no literature besides their own soul, and who are suffocating to death due to the fact they exist without having taken that mysterious, transcendental exam that makes one eligible to live.

Why should I care that no one reads what I write? I write to forget about life, and I publish because that’s one of the rules of the game.

It occurs to me that thinking, feeling and wanting can also be stagnations, on the threshold of a more intimate thinking, a feeling that’s more mine, a will lost somewhere in the labyrinth of who I really am.

pero como todos tenemos que ser explotados en la vida, me pregunto si valdrá menos la pena ser explotado por el Vasques de los tejidos que por la vanidad, por la gloria, por el despecho, por la envidia o por lo imposible.

En este contexto, el heteronimismo sería la disposición dramática de salir de sí mismo, de “volar otro”{3}, de despersonalizarse y convertirse en otras personas.

Life being fundamentally a mental state, and all that we do or think valid to the extent we consider it valid, the valuation depends on us. The dreamer is an issuer of banknotes, and the notes he issues circulate in the city of his mind just like real notes in the world outside. Why should I care if the currency of my soul will never be convertible

Un hombre puede, si posee verdadera sabiduría, disfrutar del espectáculo completo del mundo en una silla, sin saber leer, sin hablar con nadie, sólo mediante el uso de los sentidos y el alma no saber estar triste.

é sempre comparando um ser ao que lhe está mais próximo que melhor se pode delimitar sua “diferença específica”, o que propriamente o caracteriza.

Life is whatever we conceive it to be. For the farmer who considers his field to be everything, the field is an empire. For a Caesar whose empire is still not enough, the empire is a field. The poor man possesses an empire, the great man a field. All that we truly possess are our own sensations; it is in them, rather than in what they sense, that w