Question: What is the cause of the world?
Answer: Love.
Question: Why do men revolt?
Answer: To find beauty, either in life or in death.
Question: What for each of us is inevitable?
Answer: Happiness.
Question: And what is the greatest marvel?
Answer: Each day, death strikes, and we live as though we were immortal. This is the greatest marvel.
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
I am against revolutions because they always involve a return to the status quo. I am against the status quo both before and after revolutions. I don’t want to wear a black shirt or a red shirt. I want to wear the shirt that suits my taste. And I don’t want to salute like an automaton either. I prefer to shake hands when I meet someone I like. The fact is, to put it simply, I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.
