DJ Paul Quotes

Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.

Turning the corner is the most important, but first play the run.

It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

Repetition is the mother of education.

For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

The German language is the organ among the languages.

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.

I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.

My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.

My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.

Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings.

L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.

Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

Existence is an imperfection.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.

Life is a useless passion.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.