Sublime

In Büchner’s world, Woyzeck has the dignity not of high rank or reputation, but which belongs to all human souls, and his tragedy is that he is unable to see it, is blind to his own worth and relies instead on something outside himself, his relationship with Marie.

Je me fais vieux. J’ai le sentiment d’être un vieillard dont le tombeau serait la vie même – sa profession, sa carrière, sa famille, sa culture. Je n’ai rien choisi, tout m’a été assigné. Or je dois me laisser une dernière chance ! Je dois pouvoir me trouver moi-même.

Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.

suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

“Each of us tread the same pattern as everyone else and it’s a hell of a tragedy. Everyone struggles. No one gets out alive.”