In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

“Les philosophes disent: Modérez vos joies. Moi je dis: Lâchez-leur la bride, à …”

“There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there mus…”

“In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is ma…”

“الألم ثمرة؛ الله لا يضع ثمارا على غصن ضعيف لا يحتمل حملها”