"Blue of Noon" Quotes

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.

The worst curse to befall anyone is to be taken seriously.

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

The world by no means merely exists; it becomes.

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

It is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

The fear of seeing - of being seen - is a great temptation.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Desire and death are the two wings that lift the spirit to the heavens.

As long as the concept of heaven is exclusive to that of earth, the earth will never be a fit place for human habitation.